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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. OrientDB vs. QuestDB vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitegalaxybase.comorientdb.orgquestdb.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPQuestDB Technology IncOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSiteWhere
Initial release20172010201420092010
Current releaseNov 20, November 20213.2.29, March 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeStrong typed schemaschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnorestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL with time-series extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsJava, JavascriptnoErlang
TriggersHooksnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyes inforelationship in graphsnono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID for single-table writesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableyes, using Riak SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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