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DBMS > Altibase vs. EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. IRONdb vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. IRONdb vs. Qdrant

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.exasol.comwww.gridgain.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseExasolGridGain Systems, Inc.Circonus LLC.Qdrant
Initial release19992000200720172021
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023GridGain 8.5.1V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, C++, .NetC and C++Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Java
Lua
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes, in Lua
Triggersyesyesyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)configurable replication factor, datacenter awareCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
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.yesyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoKey-based authentication

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