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DBMS > GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Qdrant vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Qdrant vs. SwayDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#145  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gridgain.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.MicrosoftQdrantSimer Plaha
Initial release2007201020212018
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1V12
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial, open sourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLC++RustScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanno
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Transact SQLno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes, with always 3 replicas availableCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationno

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