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DBMS > GridDB vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenQM vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenQM vs. Trafodion

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 ElasticSearchSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitegriddb.netgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netspotify.github.io/­heroiclearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperToshiba CorporationSpotifyMicrosoftRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20132014201519932014
Current release5.1, August 2022V13.4-122.3.0, February 2019
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 infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelnonoACIDACID
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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GridDBHeroicMicrosoft Azure AI SearchOpenQM infoalso called QMTrafodion
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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