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

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

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server 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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

help.sap.com/hana

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Spotify

Sybase, SAP

SAP

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2007

2014

1993

2010

2011

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial, open source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Delphi
Perl
PHP

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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