DBMS > Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. Hazelcast vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. Hazelcast vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.62
Rank	#138	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	1.42
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	142.50
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.exasol.com/resources

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

Exasol

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Hazelcast

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2000

2007

2008

2014

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

commercial, open source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

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

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Replicated Map

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

Role-based access control

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

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