DB-EnginesextremeDB - Data management wherever you need itEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > GridGain vs. Quasardb vs. Sphinx vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Quasardb vs. Sphinx vs. Vitess

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.86
Rank#202  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comquasar.aisphinxsearch.comvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­mastersphinxsearch.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.quasardbSphinx Technologies Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2007200920012013
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.13.14.1, January 20243.5.1, February 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial, open sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLC++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binarynoyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)with Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
GridGainQuasardbSphinxVitess
DB-Engines blog posts

The DB-Engines ranking includes now search engines
4 February 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

GridGain Advances Its Unified Real-Time Data Platform to Help Enterprises Accelerate AI-Driven Data Processing
10 July 2024, insideBIGDATA

GridGain Sponsoring Strategic AI and Kafka Conferences This Month
4 September 2024, Datanami

GridGain in-memory data and generative AI
10 May 2024, Blocks & Files

Data Management News for the Week of July 12; Updates from Cloudera, HerculesAI, Oracle & More
12 July 2024, Solutions Review

Lalit Ahuja
13 August 2024, Forbes

provided by Google News

NVIDIA to Present Innovations at Hot Chips That Boost Data Center Performance and Energy Efficiency
23 August 2024, NVIDIA Blog

Record quasar is most luminous object in the universe
20 February 2024, EarthSky

When a Quasar Remote Access Tool Falls Into the Wrong Hands
23 February 2024, darktrace.com

Hubble Unexpectedly Finds Double Quasar in Distant Universe
5 April 2023, Science@NASA

Data Release 1: The UVES Spectral Quasar Absorption Database (SQUAD)
8 March 2019, ESO.org

provided by Google News

Switching From Sphinx to MkDocs Documentation — What Did I Gain and Lose?
2 February 2024, Towards Data Science

Manticore is a Faster Alternative to Elasticsearch in C++
25 July 2022, hackernoon.com

Beyond the Concert Hall: 5 Organizations Making a Difference in Classical Music in 2018
22 December 2018, WQXR Radio

The Pirate Bay was recently down for over a week due to a DDoS attack
29 October 2019, The Hacker News

Leading Local Search Engine (Just) Dials Open Source for a Growth Call!
1 September 2010, Open Source For You

provided by Google News

Deepthi Sigireddi on Distributed Database Architecture in the Cloud Native Era
20 May 2024, InfoQ.com

They scaled YouTube — now they’ll shard everyone with PlanetScale
13 December 2018, TechCrunch

PlanetScale Unveils Distributed MySQL Database Service Based on Vitess
18 May 2021, Datanami

PlanetScale offers undo button to reverse schema migration without losing data
24 March 2022, The Register

CNCF’s Vitess Scales MySQL with the Help of Kubernetes
9 February 2018, The New Stack

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here