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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. H2 vs. RRDtool vs. SQLite vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.91
Rank	#197	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.h2database.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sqlite.org

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Thomas Mueller

Tobias Oetiker

Dwayne Richard Hipp

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2000

2005

1999

2000

2017

Current release

15.5, September 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

1.8.0, 2022

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

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

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

HP-UX
Linux

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library
Pipes

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Java

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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