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DBMS > GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SWC-DB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SWC-DB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational 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#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencegithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedocs.timescale.com
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Community supported by Red HatOracleAlex KashirinTimescale
Initial release20072014200720202017
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.114.1, August 20230.5, April 20212.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnonoSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
C++.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nononouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infoLive Eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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