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DBMS > GridGain vs. RDFox vs. Teradata Aster vs. TinkerGraph vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. RDFox vs. Teradata Aster vs. TinkerGraph vs. Valentina Server

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning enginePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.techvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Oxford Semantic TechnologiesTeradataParadigma Software
Initial release20072017200520091999
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.16.0, Septermber 20225.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
TinkerPop 3ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Groovy
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)R packagesnoyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)replication via a shared file systemyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsRoles, resources, and access typesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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