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DBMS > GridGain vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Search engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#259  Overall
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
sphinxsearch.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.objectbox.iosphinxsearch.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Kyligence, Inc.ObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20072016201720012018
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.14.0 (May 2024)3.5.1, February 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial, open sourcecommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLJavaC and C++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)noSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIProprietary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonoyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
yesnoRole-based access control
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