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DBMS > Altibase vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE vs. Lovefield

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.gridgain.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperAltibaseGridGain Systems, Inc.Community supported by Red HatRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Google
Initial release19992007201419912014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023GridGain 8.5.15.72.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, C++, .NetJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalyes
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyesno
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infovia Hawkular AlertingyesUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, 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.yesyesnoyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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