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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. GridDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org

griddb.net

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.griddb.net

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Toshiba Corporation

Oracle

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2015

2009

2013

2011

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

5.1, August 2022

23.3, December 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

optional

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID at container level

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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