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DBMS > EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. PostGIS vs. Teradata vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. PostGIS vs. Teradata vs. TimesTen

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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 IgniteSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series 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
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score41.47
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.gridgain.compostgis.netwww.teradata.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.teradata.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperExasolGridGain Systems, Inc.TeradataOracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20002007200519841998
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.13.4.2, February 2024Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial, open sourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
hosted
Linux
IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functionsyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelPL/SQL
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoHashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
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 infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
yes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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