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Name

Description

A distributed reliable key-value store

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

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	7.14
Rank	#47	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	1.33
Rank	#154	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#289	Overall
	#129	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.gridgain.com

raima.com

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.raima.com

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Raima Inc.

Initial release

2007

1984

Current release

3.4, August 2019

GridGain 8.5.1

15, June 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial, open source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

More information provided by the system vendor

News

RaimaDB and QNX Forge a Powerful Partnership in Embedded Systems
9 July 2024

Raima Unveils RaimaDB 16.0: Elevating Database Performance and User Experience
29 February 2024

Raima Announces Release of Raima Database Manager (RDM) v15, a Powerful Embedded Time Series Database
10 June 2021

Raima Announces Release of Raima Database Manager (RDM) v14.2, a Powerful IoT Edge Embedded Database
8 October 2020

Raima Joins BlackBerry QNX Channel Partner Program to Deliver Safety-Critical and Secure Software Solutions
1 October 2020

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