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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. GridGain vs. H2 vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. GridGain vs. H2 vs. Lovefield

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdruid.apache.orgwww.gridgain.comwww.h2database.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation and contributorsGridGain Systems, Inc.Thomas MuellerGoogle
Initial release20142012200720052014
Current release29.0.1, April 2024GridGain 8.5.12.2.220, July 20232.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes (replicated cache)With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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