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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. mSQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.gridgain.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Hughes Technologies

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2007

1994

1984

2013

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

4.4, October 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

none

yes

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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