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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Ingres vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Well established RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

griddb.net

www.hawkular.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.actian.com/ingres

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

Community supported by Red Hat

Actian Corporation

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2013

2014

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2021

Current release

5.1, August 2022

11.2, May 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

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

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Ingres Replicator

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

yes

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

MVCC

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

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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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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