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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. HEAVY.AI

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.23
Rank#319  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#155  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#126  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.exasol.comwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperEsgynExasolGridGain Systems, Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release2015200020072016
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.15.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaJava, C++, .NetC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoHadoop integrationyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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