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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. FatDB vs. GeoMesa vs. GridDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.geomesa.orggriddb.net
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.griddb.net
DeveloperAxibase CorporationFatCloudCCRi and othersToshiba Corporation
Initial release2013201220142013
Current release155855.0.0, May 20245.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#ScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxWindowsLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia applicationsnono
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factordepending on storage layerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
depending on storage layerImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID at container level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per database
More information provided by the system vendor
AxibaseFatDBGeoMesaGridDB
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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