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DBMS > GridGain vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Pinecone vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Pinecone vs. XTDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.kinetica.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.kinetica.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.KineticaMicrosoftPinecone Systems, IncJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20072012198920192019
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.17.1, August 2021SQL Server 2022, November 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC, C++C++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
PythonClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functionsTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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