DBMS > GridGain vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.42
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.50
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	142.50
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	3.63
Rank	#76	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

origodb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

origodb.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Robert Friberg et al

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2009

under the name LiveDB

1994

2014

2016

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

8.2.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial, open source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Domain Events

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Hadoop integration

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

full support since version 6.6

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

Write ahead log

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

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Market metrics

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