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

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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.NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.h2database.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.risingwave.com/­databasesqream.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldoc.nuodb.comdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Thomas MuellerDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.RisingWave LabsSQream Technologies
Initial release20072005201320222017
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.12.2.220, July 20231.2, September 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaC++RustC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyes, 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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsJava, SQLUDFs in Python or Javauser defined functions in Python
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyesnono
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 nodesyes (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 methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocolnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, 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.yesyesyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersUsers and Roles

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