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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. H2 vs. OpenSearch vs. RavenDB vs. Transbase

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series 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
Score16.36
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
ravendb.netwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlopensearch.org/­docs/­latestravendb.net/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Thomas MuellerAmazon Web ServicesHibernating RhinosTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20072005202120101987
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.12.2.220, July 20232.5.0, January 20235.4, July 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaC#C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (RQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesyesyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding
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 databaseyesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
GridGainH2OpenSearchRavenDBTransbase
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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