DBMS > GridDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

griddb.net

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/google/leveldb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

InterSystems

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2010

2018

2011

2014

Current release

5.1, August 2022

2023.3, June 2023

1.23, February 2021

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

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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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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