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DBMS > GridGain vs. Ingres vs. SAP IQ vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Ingres vs. SAP IQ vs. SiteWhere

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteWell established RDBMSColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedTime Series 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
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingreshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Actian CorporationSAP, formerly SybaseSiteWhere
Initial release20071974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19942010
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.111.2, May 202216.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Ingres ReplicatorSAP/Sybase Replication Serverselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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