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

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

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  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 IgnitemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.gridgain.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.snowflake.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperExasolGridGain Systems, Inc.Hughes TechnologiesSnowflake Computing Inc.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release20002007199420142008
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.14.4, October 20215.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
hostedserver-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyesyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
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 ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
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.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno

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