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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GridDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Manticore Search vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA widely adopted in-memory data gridMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegriddb.nethazelcast.commanticoresearch.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.nethazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAxibase CorporationToshiba CorporationHazelcastManticore SoftwareTimescale
Initial release20132013200820172017
Current release155855.1, August 20225.3.6, November 20236.0, February 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyCan index from XMLyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesuser defined functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyesyes infoEventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated MapSynchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at container levelone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
AxibaseGridDBHazelcastManticore SearchTimescaleDB
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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