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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SurrealDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.heavy.aicloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20072016201019842022
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.15.10, January 20227.4.1.1, 2021v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++ and CUDAErlangRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedHP Open VMSLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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 implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes, based on authentication and database rules

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