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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. H2GIS vs. IRONdb vs. jBASE vs. SiteWhere

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Spatial extension of H2

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.h2gis.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

CNRS

Circonus LLC.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SiteWhere

Initial release

2007

2013

2017

1991

2010

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

V0.10.20, January 2018

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

optional

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

based on H2

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

based on H2

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

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

yes

based on H2

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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