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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Spatial extension of SQLite

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Rockset

Alessandro Furieri

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2007

2019

2008

2000

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

5.0.0, August 2020

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial, open source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

none

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

Eventual 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

via file-system locks

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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