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System Properties Comparison etcd vs. GridGain vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteHigh performance Time Series DBMSMicrosofts flagship relational DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.gridgain.comkx.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-server
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
www.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlcode.kx.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-server
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMicrosoft
Initial release20072000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20031989
Current release3.4, August 2019GridGain 8.5.13.6, May 2018SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, C++, .NetqC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (q)yes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functionsTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java
Triggersyes, watching key changesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infowith viewsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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etcdGridGainKdbMicrosoft SQL Server
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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