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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ObjectBox vs. Pinecone

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Name

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

objectbox.io

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.objectbox.io

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

2007

2014

2017

2019

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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 properties auto-indexed by default

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

JavaScript

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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