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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Snowflake

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.32
Rank#151  Overall
#1  Columnar
#25  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#68  Relational DBMS
Score168.09
Rank#6  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20072014
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial, open sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyes
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
hosted
Data schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.yesyes
Secondary indexesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functions
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)no infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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