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DBMS > GridGain vs. H2GIS vs. Manticore Search vs. MonetDB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. H2GIS vs. Manticore Search vs. MonetDB vs. Teradata Aster

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteSpatial extension of H2Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial 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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.h2gis.orgmanticoresearch.comwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homemanual.manticoresearch.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.CNRSManticore SoftwareMonetDB BVTeradata
Initial release20072013201720042005
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.16.0, February 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemayesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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.yesnoCan index from XMLyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infobased on H2user defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, RR packages
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes infobased on H2Synchronous replication based on Galera librarynone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
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 implementationsyes infobased on H2nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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