DBMS > GridGain vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.jaguardb.com

www.snowflake.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2007

2015

2014

1987

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

3.3 July 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

rights management via user accounts

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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