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DBMS > etcd vs. GridGain vs. LMDB vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. GridGain vs. LMDB vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeSearch engineKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.gridgain.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
www.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.lmdb.tech/­docsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.SymasSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release2007201120012011
Current release3.4, August 2019GridGain 8.5.10.9.32, January 20243.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, C++, .NetCC++C#
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonono
Triggersyes, watching key changesyes (cache interceptors and events)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes (replicated cache)nonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnonono

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