DBMS > EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. Interbase vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. Interbase vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
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Score	1.53
Rank	#155	Overall
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	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.gridgain.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.snowflake.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Exasol

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Embarcadero

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2000

2007

1984

2014

2012

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

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

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Interbase Change Views

yes

none

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

none

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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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