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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. H2 vs. NuoDB vs. Spark SQL vs. SQream DB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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 transactionsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processinga 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
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.h2database.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasespark.apache.org/­sqlsqream.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldoc.nuodb.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Thomas MuellerDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Apache Software FoundationSQream Technologies
Initial release20072005201320142017
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.12.2.220, July 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), 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 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaC++ScalaC++, 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
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, 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 indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
.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
Java
Python
R
Scala
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, SQLnouser 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/writtenyes, utilizing Spark Corehorizontal 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 NuoDBnonenone
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 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 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.yesyesyes infoTemporary tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersno

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