DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MySQL vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MySQL vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Widely used open source RDBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.gridgain.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

GridGain Systems, Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2007

2010

1995

1994

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

8.4.0, April 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, C++, .Net

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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