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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. GridGain vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

alasql.org

bigobject.io

www.gridgain.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bigobject.io

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BigObject, Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2014

2015

2007

1993

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

commercial, open source

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

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

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

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

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

yes

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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 can be defined down to the item level

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