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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SiriDB

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

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

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

siridb.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.siridb.com

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Cesbit

Initial release

2007

2012

2021

1984

2017

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2.5.0, January 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

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.

yes

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

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

yes, on a single node

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 based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

simple rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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