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DBMS > EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OrigoDB vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OrigoDB vs. Quasardb

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 IgniteA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
origodb.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.heavy.aiorigodb.com/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperExasolGridGain Systems, Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Robert Friberg et alquasardb
Initial release2000200720162009 infounder the name LiveDB2009
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.15.10, January 20223.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++ and CUDAC#C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes infointeger and binary
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.noyesnono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyesno
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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