DBMS > GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Newts vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Newts vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

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

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

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

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

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

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2007

2015

2014

2020

1987

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java

C++

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)

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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