DBMS > GridGain vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Yanza vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Yanza vs. YottaDB

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

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

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.gridgain.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

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

yanza.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

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

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Oracle

Yanza

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2007

2021

2011

2015

2001

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2.5.0, January 2023

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

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

commercial

free version available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

any language that supports HTTP calls

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Timer and event based

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)

yes

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

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users and roles

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

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