DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Derby vs. GridGain vs. Memgraph vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Derby vs. GridGain vs. Memgraph vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

memgraph.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

1997

2007

2017

2014

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

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

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

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users, roles and permissions

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

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