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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. GBase vs. GridDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. YDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.gbase.cngriddb.netwww.timescale.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.griddb.netdocs.timescale.comydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Toshiba CorporationTimescaleYandex
Initial release20142004201320172019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.1, August 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID at container levelACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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Apache PhoenixGBaseGridDBTimescaleDBYDB
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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