DBMS > BigObject vs. etcd vs. GridGain vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. etcd vs. GridGain vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A distributed reliable key-value store

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
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Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.gridgain.com

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2007

2017

2014

Current release

3.4, August 2019

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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-like DML and DDL statements

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

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

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes (replicated cache)

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

simple rights management via user accounts

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

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