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DBMS > GridDB vs. Heroic vs. Kingbase vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Heroic vs. Kingbase vs. OpenTSDB

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#258  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitegriddb.netgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.kingbase.com.cnopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netspotify.github.io/­heroicopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperToshiba CorporationSpotifyBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2013201419992011
Current release5.1, August 2022V8.0, August 2021
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 2.0commercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaC and JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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