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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Derby vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SWC-DB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFull-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 IgniteMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitealtibase.comdb.apache.org/­derbywww.gridgain.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servergithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-server
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software FoundationGridGain Systems, Inc.MicrosoftAlex Kashirin
Initial release19991997200719892020
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202310.17.1.0, November 2023GridGain 8.5.1SQL Server 2022, November 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava, C++, .NetC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsJava Stored Proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano
Triggersyesyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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