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DBMS > GridGain vs. Heroic vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Heroic vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websitewww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.marklogic.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.marklogic.com
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.SpotifyMarkLogic Corp.MicrosoftSybase, SAP
Initial release20072014200120121993
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.111.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyes infoSQL92noyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yesyesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Multi-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionoptimistic lockingACID
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.yesnoyes, with Range Indexesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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