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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

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

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.53
Rank	#155	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	2.96
Rank	#103	Overall
	#18	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	19.15
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

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

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

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

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Oracle

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2007

2011

2014

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

23.3, December 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

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

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

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

none

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
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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)

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

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users and roles

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