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DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. EJDB vs. GridDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. EJDB vs. GridDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. TimescaleDB

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#266  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitecachelot.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgriddb.netkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisewww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.griddb.netdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperSoftmotionsToshiba CorporationKyligence, Inc.Timescale
Initial release20152012201320162017
Current release5.1, August 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++JavaC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-lessLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolin-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID at container levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Cachelot.ioEJDBGridDBKyligence EnterpriseTimescaleDB
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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