DBMS > GridGain vs. KairosDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. KairosDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

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

Primary database model

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

kairosdb.github.io

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

SAP

Initial release

2007

2013

2017

2010

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

1.2.2, November 2018

4.0 (May 2024)

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial, open source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

APIs and other access methods

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

simple password-based access control

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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