DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GridGain vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GridGain vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented 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	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.gridgain.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.snowflake.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2007

1984

2014

2012

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, C++, .Net

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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