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DBMS > GridGain vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. PostGIS vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. PostGIS vs. Teradata Aster

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingrespostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingrespostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Hyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationTeradata
Initial release20071974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20052005
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.111.2, May 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetGoCC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyesyes
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.yesnono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyesuser defined functionsR packages
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Ingres Replicatoryes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationstoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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