DBMS > GridGain vs. Kinetica vs. OushuDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Kinetica vs. OushuDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

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

Primary database model

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series 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	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#357	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.kinetica.com

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.kinetica.com

www.oushu.com/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Kinetica

Oushu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2007

2012

2014

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

7.1, August 2021

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial, open source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

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

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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)

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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

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