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System Properties Comparison Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. GridDB vs. ITTIA vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

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

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.37
Rank	#278	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.postgresql.fastware.com

griddb.net

www.ittia.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

docs.griddb.net

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

Toshiba Corporation

ITTIA L.L.C.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2007

2014

Current release

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

5.1, August 2022

8.7

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

commercial

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++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

partitioning by range, list and by hash

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at container level

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Database file passwords

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Specific characteristics

100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

Built-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Transactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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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

Over 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

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