DBMS > GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Milvus vs. Oracle vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Milvus vs. Oracle vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Widely used RDBMS

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

milvus.io

www.oracle.com/database

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Microsoft

Oracle

Initial release

2007

2012

2019

1980

2009

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2.4.4, May 2024

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++, Go

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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