DBMS > GridGain vs. Newts vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Newts vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

OpenNMS Group

Oracle

Percona

SAP

Initial release

2007

2014

2011

2015

2010

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

23.3, December 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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