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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. Drizzle vs. GridGain vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. Drizzle vs. GridGain vs. OpenEdge

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbigobject.iowww.gridgain.comwww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bigobject.iowww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBigObject, Inc.Drizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGridGain Systems, Inc.Progress Software Corporation
Initial release20142015200820071984
Current release7.2.4, September 2012GridGain 8.5.1OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Java, C++, .Net
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infowith proprietary extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes
Triggersyesnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers and groups

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