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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Embarcadero

Microsoft

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2007

1984

1989

1992

2000

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

InterBase 2020, December 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

17, July 2015

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial, open source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

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

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Interbase Change Views

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

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

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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

via file-system locks

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

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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