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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SiteWhere vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented 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	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Microsoft

SiteWhere

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2007

2016

2010

2011

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial, open source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

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

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Based on Windows Authentication

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