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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. BigObject vs. GridDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. STSdb

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphbigobject.iogriddb.netopentsdb.netgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.griddb.netopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.BigObject, Inc.Toshiba Corporationcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSTS Soft SC
Initial release20162015201320112011
Current release2.1, December 20185.1, August 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinux
Windows
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nono
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Telnet API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuanonono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenoneShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID at container levelnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenono
More information provided by the system vendor
AgensGraphBigObjectGridDBOpenTSDBSTSdb
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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