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DBMS > GridGain vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NuoDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain 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.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.h2database.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Thomas MuellerMicrosoftDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release2007200520152013
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.12.2.220, July 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnoJava, SQL
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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