DBMS > GridGain vs. Ingres vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Ingres vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
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	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2007

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2015

2014

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

11.2, May 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Erlang

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Ingres Replicator

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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