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DBMS > GridGain vs. H2GIS vs. Hyprcubd vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. H2GIS vs. Hyprcubd vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Rockset

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteSpatial extension of H2Serverless Time Series DBMSFully managed big data interactive analytics platformA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.h2gis.orghyprcubd.com (offline)azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.CNRSHyprcubd, Inc.MicrosoftRockset
Initial release2007201320192019
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesyes
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedhostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesdynamic typing
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.yesnonoyesno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesSQL-like query languageKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
gRPC (https)Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infobased on H2noYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Rno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnoyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes infobased on H2yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)noyesyes
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infobased on H2token accessAzure Active Directory AuthenticationAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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