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DBMS > GridGain vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP IQ vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP IQ vs. YottaDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlyottadb.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.MicrosoftSAP, formerly SybaseYottaDB, LLC
Initial release2007199219942001
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.11902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201916.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)noneSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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