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DBMS > Dgraph vs. GridDB vs. Infobright vs. KairosDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. GridDB vs. Infobright vs. KairosDB vs. SwayDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitedgraph.iogriddb.netignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.griddb.netkairosdb.github.io
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Toshiba CorporationIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release20162013200520132018
Current release5.1, August 20221.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++CJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yesnono
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID at container levelACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiessimple password-based access controlno
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DgraphGridDBInfobrightKairosDBSwayDB
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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