DBMS > GridGain vs. ObjectBox vs. SQLite vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. ObjectBox vs. SQLite vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.objectbox.io

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2007

2017

2000

2012

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

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 and C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

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