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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. H2 vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA vs. SQLite

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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.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
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	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.h2database.com

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/hana

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Thomas Mueller

Rockset

SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2007

2005

2019

2010

2000

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2.2.220, July 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

yes

none

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

yes

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

yes

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