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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GridGain vs. H2 vs. Machbase Neo vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#155	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#324	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

machbase.com/dbms

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Thomas Mueller

Machbase

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2014

2007

2005

2013

1984

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2.2.220, July 2023

V8.0, August 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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