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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. H2 vs. OrientDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  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.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Multivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score7.57
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#88  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
Score2.25
Rank#112  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.h2database.comorientdb.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Thomas MuellerOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPRocket Software
Initial release2007200520101985
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.12.2.220, July 20233.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial, open sourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptional
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesSQL-like query language, no joinsyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsJava, Javascriptyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesHooksyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
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 databaseMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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