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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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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

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

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Score	1.37
Rank	#154	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#84	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.89
Rank	#122	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

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

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

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Microsoft

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2007

2012

1994

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial, open source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

only for the SQL API

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. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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