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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Hive vs. Immudb vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

hive.apache.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.jaguardb.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.immudb.io

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Codenotary

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2007

2012

2020

2015

1989

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

3.1.3, April 2022

1.2.3, April 2022

3.3 July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Linux
Windows

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like syntax

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users, groups and roles

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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