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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Quasardb vs. TimesTen vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

quasar.ai

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

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

quasardb

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2007

2009

1998

2011

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

3.14.1, January 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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