DBMS > GridGain vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB vs. YDB

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

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

spark.apache.org/sql

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

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

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

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Alex Kashirin

Yandex

Initial release

2007

1989

2014

2020

2019

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (YQL)

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

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
Python
R
Scala

C++

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

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

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Active-passive shard replication

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

yes

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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