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DBMS > EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP IQ vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP IQ vs. Teradata

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#155  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score3.27
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
Score47.84
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.teradata.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperExasolGridGain Systems, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SAP, formerly SybaseTeradata
Initial release20002007201019941984
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.116.1 SPS04, April 2019Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.noyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyesyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
SAP/Sybase Replication ServerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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