DBMS > atoti vs. GridGain vs. Oracle vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. GridGain vs. Oracle vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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

Widely used RDBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

atoti.io

www.gridgain.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

ActiveViam

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Oracle

Sybase, SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2007

1980

1993

2014

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

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

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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