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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GridDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. RavenDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

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

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.griddb.net

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Toshiba Corporation

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Hibernating Rhinos

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2015

2013

2011

2010

2011

Current release

5.1, August 2022

5.4, July 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

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

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

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

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

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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 query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Telnet API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source 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

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

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

ACID at container level

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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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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