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DBMS > GridGain vs. HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica vs. MaxDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  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 hardwareA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#157  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#115  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.kinetica.commaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.heavy.aidocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.kinetica.commaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)KineticaSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20072016199120121984
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.15.10, January 20225.77.1, August 20217.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial, open sourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLC++ and CUDAC, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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