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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. mSQL vs. PostGIS vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.15
Rank	#69	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

griddb.net

hyprcubd.com (offline)

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

postgis.net

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

postgis.net/documentation

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Hughes Technologies

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2013

1994

2005

2015

Current release

5.1, August 2022

4.4, October 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.2, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC (https)

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID at container level

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

token access

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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