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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. H2 vs. NSDb vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.h2database.com

nsdb.io

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Thomas Mueller

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2007

2005

2017

1987

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2.2.220, July 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Java, Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

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

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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