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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. EDB Postgres vs. GridDB vs. HyperSQL vs. STSdb

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.enterprisedb.comgriddb.nethsqldb.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.griddb.nethsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.EnterpriseDBToshiba CorporationSTS Soft SC
Initial release20152005201320012011
Current release14, December 20215.1, August 20222.7.2, June 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes 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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yesno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noJava, SQLno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnonenone
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 systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID at container levelACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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BigObjectEDB PostgresGridDBHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBSTSdb
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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