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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Quasardb vs. SAP IQ vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsPort of SQLite to JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gridgain.comquasar.aiwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlsql.js.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.quasardbSAP, formerly SybaseAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer Plaha
Initial release20072009199420122018
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.13.14.1, January 202416.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++JavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyesno
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyesnono
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexernonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorSAP/Sybase Replication Servernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)with Hadoop integrationHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modenoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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