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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Tibero vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

griddb.net

ignite.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

vitess.io

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

TmaxSoft

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2013

2015

1989

2003

2013

Current release

5.1, August 2022

Apache Ignite 2.6

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

6, April 2015

15.0.2, December 2022

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

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java, .Net

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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 (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

planned for next version

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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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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