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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Memcached vs. OpenQM vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.memcached.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2007

2003

1993

2013

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

1.6.25, March 2024

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary protocol

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple password-based access control

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