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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. mSQL vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.53
Rank	#155	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	3.01
Rank	#101	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.gridgain.com

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

ravendb.net

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

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

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

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Hibernating Rhinos

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2007

1989

1994

2010

2020

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.4, October 2021

5.4, July 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (RQL)

SQL-like query language

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)

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

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

yes

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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