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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. GridGain vs. H2 vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperGridGain 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.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.gridgain.comwww.h2database.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffChris DavisGridGain Systems, Inc.Thomas MuellerOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20142006200720051984
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.12.2.220, July 20237.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMHP Open VMS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP API
Sockets
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes (replicated cache)With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database
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 systemnonenoneImmediate 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-storagenoACIDACIDyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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