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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Postgres-XL vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.59
Rank#158  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Score0.56
Rank#253  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score3.47
Rank#95  Overall
#16  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.20
Rank#327  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.postgres-xl.orgravendb.netgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationravendb.net/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Hibernating RhinosAlex KashirinTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20072014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201020201987
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.110 R1, October 20185.4, July 20220.5, April 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetCC#C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functionsyesnoyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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