DBMS > GridGain vs. HarperDB vs. HBase vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. HarperDB vs. HBase vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
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	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.harperdb.io

hbase.apache.org

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

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.harperdb.io/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

HarperDB

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2007

2017

2008

1994

2014

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

3.1, August 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Node.js

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
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)

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Coprocessors in Java

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

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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