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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Memcached vs. OpenSearch vs. Riak KV

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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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.47
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Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
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Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.memcached.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Amazon Web Services

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2007

2003

2021

2009

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

1.6.25, March 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

yes, using Riak Security

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