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DBMS > EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. LMDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. LMDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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 performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.66
Rank#138  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#120  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score133.72
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.gridgain.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.snowflake.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperExasolGridGain Systems, Inc.SymasSnowflake Computing Inc.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release20002007201120142008
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.10.9.32, January 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial, open sourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Unix
Windows
hostedserver-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyesyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)nono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)noneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
noUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno

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