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DBMS > GridGain vs. Heroic vs. QuestDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Heroic vs. QuestDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VelocityDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 ElasticSearchA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicquestdb.iowww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicquestdb.io/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.SpotifyQuestDB Technology IncSybase, SAPVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20072014201419932011
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.17.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial, open sourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL with time-series extensionsyesno
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
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Delphi
Perl
PHP
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonoyesno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-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)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID for single-table writesACIDACID
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 infothrough memory mapped filesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication
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