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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. GridDB vs. SiriDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	3.58
Rank	#92	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

www.featurebase.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

griddb.net

siridb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.griddb.net

docs.siridb.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Google

Toshiba Corporation

Cesbit

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2015

2013

2017

2019

Current release

2022, May 2022

5.1, August 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

Numeric data

yes, extensible-data-notation format

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

Source-replica replication

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Atomic single-row operations

ACID at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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