DBMS > Graphite vs. GridDB vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. GridDB vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

griddb.net

ignite.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.griddb.net

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Chris Davis

Toshiba Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2006

2013

2015

2021

Current release

5.1, August 2022

Apache Ignite 2.6

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

C++, Java, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

using Azure authentication

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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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