DBMS > DataFS vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
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Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

newdatabase.com

www.gridgain.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.monetdb.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Mobiland AG

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2007

1989

2004

2019

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

GridGain 8.5.1

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes, each node contains all data

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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