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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. MySQL vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#157	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#3	Object oriented DBMS
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	998.15
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.mysql.com

origodb.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

origodb.com/docs

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2007

1995

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial, open source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Role based authorization

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