DBMS > EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. Memgraph vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. Memgraph vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

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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

A hybrid, in-memory first, distributed graph DBMS delivering high-performance on analytical and transactional workloads at enterprise scale

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS info

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.09
Rank	#92	Overall
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	2.16
Rank	#116	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#296	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS

Score	4.93
Rank	#70	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#101	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com/en/products

www.gridgain.com

memgraph.com

www.sap.com/products/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/en/community/resources

www.gridgain.com/docs/latest

docs.memgraph.com

help.sap.com/iq

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2007

2017

1994

2014

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial info

Free license available

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-Master replication using RAFT

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

User concepts info

Access control

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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