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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. GridDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

griddb.net

www.sadasengine.com

siridb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.griddb.net

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.siridb.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Google

Toshiba Corporation

SADAS s.r.l.

Cesbit

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2015

2013

2006

2017

1998

Current release

5.1, August 2022

8.0

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

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

free trial version available

Open Source

MIT License

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++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

Numeric data

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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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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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