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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. SurrealDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.33
Rank#154  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#70  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#176  Overall
#30  Document stores
#16  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20072022
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial, open sourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.yes
Secondary indexesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
yes, based on authentication and database rules

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