DBMS > EsgynDB vs. GridGain vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. GridGain vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.gridgain.com

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

www.snowflake.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Esgyn

GridGain Systems, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2015

2007

1994

2014

2001

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

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

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes (replicated cache)

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights 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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