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DBMS > EJDB vs. GridDB vs. Ignite vs. Linter vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. GridDB vs. Ignite vs. Linter vs. SiteWhere

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.RDBMS for high security requirementsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgriddb.netignite.apache.orglinter.rugithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.griddb.netapacheignite.readme.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperSoftmotionsToshiba CorporationApache Software Foundationrelex.ruSiteWhere
Initial release20122013201519902010
Current release5.1, August 2022Apache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++, Java, .NetC and C++Java
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesno
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesActionscript
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
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL
Triggersnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at container levelACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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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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