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DBMS > EXASOL vs. GridDB vs. Ingres vs. SQL.JS vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. GridDB vs. Ingres vs. SQL.JS vs. TempoIQ

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataWell established RDBMSPort of SQLite to JavaScriptScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comgriddb.netwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingressql.js.orgtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.griddb.netdocs.actian.com/­ingressql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperExasolToshiba CorporationActian CorporationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersTempoIQ
Initial release200020131974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20122012
Current release5.1, August 202211.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++CJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes 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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JavaScript APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationIngres Replicatornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationConnector 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 Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID at container levelACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple authentication-based access control
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EXASOLGridDBIngresSQL.JSTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB
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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