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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GridGain vs. Hive vs. JaguarDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

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

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Altibase

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

DataJaguar, Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1999

2007

2012

2015

2000

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

GridGain 8.5.1

3.1.3, April 2022

3.3 July 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

ANSI SQL-92

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

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

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users, groups and roles

rights management via user accounts

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