DBMS > Blueflood vs. GridDB vs. H2GIS vs. RocksDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GridDB vs. H2GIS vs. RocksDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Spatial extension of H2

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.griddb.net

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Rackspace

Toshiba Corporation

CNRS

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2009

Current release

5.1, August 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

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

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

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

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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

yes

based on H2

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Specific characteristics

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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

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Licensing and pricing models

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