DBMS > GBase vs. GridDB vs. H2 vs. OpenSearch vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GridDB vs. H2 vs. OpenSearch vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.gbase.cn

griddb.net

www.h2database.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Toshiba Corporation

Thomas Mueller

Amazon Web Services

Yanza

Initial release

2004

2013

2005

2021

2015

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.1, August 2022

2.2.220, July 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

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

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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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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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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