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DBMS > GBase vs. GridDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GridDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Prometheus

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely 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 DataDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cngriddb.netwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantprometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Toshiba CorporationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2004201320102015
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++ErlangGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampnoNumeric data only
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.yesnonono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID at container levelno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno
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GBaseGridDBIBM CloudantPrometheus
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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