DBMS > Apache Druid vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

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

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

www.gridgain.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Microsoft

SAP

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2007

1992

2010

2018

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

GridGain 8.5.1

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

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

SQL for querying

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

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes (replicated cache)

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Security Hooks for custom implementations

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

yes

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