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Name

Description

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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rethinkdb.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Alachisoft

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2007

2005

2009

2018

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

5.3.3, April 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Notifications

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

users and table-level permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

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