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DBMS > GridGain vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Rockset vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Rockset vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverrockset.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
terminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.rockset.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.MicrosoftRocksetAlex KashirinDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20071989201920202018
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1SQL Server 2022, November 20220.5, April 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++C++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyes
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.yesyesno infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Thrift
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanonoyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationAutomatic shardingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleRole-based access control

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