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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Lovefield vs. Memgraph vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#94	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

www.gridgain.com

google.github.io/lovefield

memgraph.com

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

memgraph.com/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Google

Memgraph Ltd

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2007

2014

2017

2009

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2.1.12, February 2017

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial, open source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Using read-only observers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users, roles and permissions

yes

users and table-level permissions

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