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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. mSQL vs. Quasardb

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableshughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.MicrosoftHughes Technologiesquasardb
Initial release2007201219942009
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.14.4, October 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonono
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.noneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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