DBMS > chDB vs. EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison chDB vs. EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

www.exasol.com/resources

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2023

2000

2007

2014

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

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

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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