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DBMS > GridGain vs. Hazelcast vs. SAP IQ vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Hazelcast vs. SAP IQ vs. ToroDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA widely adopted in-memory data gridColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score5.72
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score2.56
Rank#106  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comhazelcast.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.HazelcastSAP, formerly Sybase8Kdata
Initial release2007200819942016
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.15.3.6, November 202316.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial, open sourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.yesyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infoEventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes infoReplicated MapSAP/Sybase Replication ServerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
Role-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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