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DBMS > GridGain vs. Snowflake vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Snowflake vs. Trino

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score5.18
Rank#60  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.snowflake.comtrino.io
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmltrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.Trino Software Foundation
Initial release200720142012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial, open sourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
hostedLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functionsyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)no infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesdepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yesdepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesdepending on connected data-source
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 authenticationSQL standard access control
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