DBMS > Graphite vs. GridGain vs. JaguarDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. GridGain vs. JaguarDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.gridgain.com

www.jaguardb.com

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

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Chris Davis

GridGain Systems, Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2006

2007

2015

1994

2014

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

3.3 July 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java, C++, .Net

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

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

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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