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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Newts vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Oracle

Percona

Initial release

2007

1989

2014

2011

2015

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

23.3, December 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

JavaScript

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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