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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. ObjectBox vs. TerminusDB

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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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.41
Rank	#129	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	1.57
Rank	#170	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#315	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

objectbox.io

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/latest

docs.objectbox.io

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2007

2017

2018

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

10.1.4, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

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++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary native API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

JavaScript
Python

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

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Journaling Streams

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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