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DBMS > GridGain vs. JaguarDB vs. Linter vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. JaguarDB vs. Linter vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Quasardb

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgnitePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsRDBMS for high security requirementsDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.jaguardb.comlinter.ruazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasequasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.DataJaguar, Inc.relex.ruMicrosoftquasardb
Initial release20072015199020102009
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.13.3 July 2023V123.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLTransact SQLno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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