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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. HBase vs. InfluxDB vs. JaguarDB vs. RocksDB

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.00
Rank#137  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score31.60
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score26.89
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#372  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
#14  Vector DBMS
Score4.52
Rank#80  Overall
#10  Key-value stores
Websitegriddb.nethbase.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.jaguardb.comrocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.nethbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperToshiba CorporationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetDataJaguar, Inc.Facebook, Inc.
Initial release20132008201320152013
Current release5.1, August 20222.3.4, January 20212.7.5, January 20243.3 July 20238.10.0, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampoptions to bring your own types, AVRONumeric data and Stringsyesno
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 indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noSQL-like query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanonono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonoyes
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.yesyesyes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple rights management via user accountsrights management via user accountsno
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Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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