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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Galaxybase vs. GridDB vs. openGauss vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

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

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

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

Website

bigobject.io

galaxybase.com

griddb.net

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.griddb.net

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Toshiba Corporation

Huawei and openGauss community

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2015

2017

2013

2019

2011

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

5.1, August 2022

3.0, March 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

C, 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)

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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)

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

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

C
C++
Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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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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