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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. GridDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TiDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgriddb.netopentsdb.netwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlpingcap.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.griddb.netopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperChris DavisToshiba Corporationcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSybase, SAPPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20062013201119932016
Current release5.1, August 20228.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++JavaGo, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Telnet API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBasenonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at container levelnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
GraphiteGridDBOpenTSDBSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADSTiDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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