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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. H2 vs. Ingres vs. Prometheus vs. VelocityDB

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Well established RDBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comwww.h2database.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresprometheus.iovelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingresprometheus.io/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesThomas MuellerActian CorporationVelocityDB Inc
Initial release200020051974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20152011
Current release15.5, September 20202.2.220, July 202311.2, May 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaCGoC#
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Java.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesnono
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyesyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseIngres Replicatoryes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCCyesyes
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.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoBased on Windows Authentication

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