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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Datomic vs. GridDB vs. jBASE vs. OceanBase

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comwww.datomic.comgriddb.netwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseen.oceanbase.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comdocs.datomic.comdocs.griddb.netdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9en.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-database
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeCognitectToshiba CorporationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)OceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant Group
Initial release20122012201319912010
Current release7.0, November 20231.0.7075, December 20235.1, August 20225.74.3.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialOpen Source infoCommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJava, ClojureC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampoptionalyes
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.nononoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luayes infoTransaction FunctionsnoyesPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication using Paxos
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/ReducenoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDACID at container levelACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlynoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafDatomicGridDBjBASEOceanBase
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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