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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Graphite vs. GridDB vs. Rockset

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websiteduckdb.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgriddb.netrockset.com
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.griddb.netdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperChris DavisToshiba CorporationRockset
Initial release2018200620132019
Current release0.10, February 20245.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++PythonC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
Unix
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampdynamic typing
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID at container levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
More information provided by the system vendor
DuckDBGraphiteGridDBRockset
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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