DBMS > GridGain vs. HarperDB vs. Oracle vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. HarperDB vs. Oracle vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Yanza

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Name

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Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Widely used RDBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.harperdb.io

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

HarperDB

Oracle

Sybase, SAP

Yanza

Initial release

2007

2017

1980

1993

2015

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

3.1, August 2021

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Node.js

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

with proprietary extensions

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

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++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Delphi
Perl
PHP

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Timer and event based

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, horizontal partitioning

none

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

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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