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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. GridGain vs. H2 vs. NuoDB vs. SQream DB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceGridGain 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.NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.gridgain.comwww.h2database.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasesqream.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldoc.nuodb.comdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGridGain Systems, Inc.Thomas MuellerDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release20232007200520132017
Current release1.0, March 2023GridGain 8.5.12.2.220, July 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infolimited edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, C++, .NetJavaC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemescheme-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsJava, SQLuser defined functions in Python
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenhorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnone
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 systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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