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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Graph Engine vs. GridGain vs. RisingWave vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Graph Engine vs. GridGain vs. RisingWave vs. SAP IQ

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.graphengine.iowww.gridgain.comwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperExasolMicrosoftGridGain Systems, Inc.RisingWave LabsSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20002010200720221994
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.11.2, September 202316.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation language.NET and CJava, C++, .NetRust
Server operating systems.NETLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)UDFs in Python or Javayes
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)SAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers and Rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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