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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GridGain vs. H2GIS vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

Spatial extension of H2

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

CNRS

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

2007

2013

2012

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial, open source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

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

Data scheme

yes

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

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

yes

based on H2

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

based on H2

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