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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. InfluxDB

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Name	GridDB  Xexclude from comparison	InfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data	DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Time Series DBMS
Secondary database models	Key-value store Relational DBMS	Spatial DBMS with GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.28 Rank #154   Overall #11   Time Series DBMS	Score 29.86 Rank #29   Overall #1   Time Series DBMS
Website	griddb.net	www.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentation	docs.griddb.net	docs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
Developer	Toshiba Corporation
Initial release	2013	2013
Current release	4.6, February 2021	2.0.8, August 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	Open Source MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	Go
Server operating systems	Linux	Linux OS X through Homebrew
Data scheme	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp	Numeric data and Strings
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.	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)	SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods	Proprietary protocol	HTTP API JSON over UDP
Supported programming languages	C C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Ruby	.Net Clojure Erlang Go Haskell Java JavaScript JavaScript (Node.js) Lisp Perl PHP Python R Ruby Rust Scala
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no
Triggers	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	Sharding in enterprise version only
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Source-replica replication	selectable replication factor in enterprise version only
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	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID at container level	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	yes Depending on used storage engine
User concepts Access control	Access rights for users can be defined per database	simple rights management via user accounts
More information provided by the system vendor
	GridDB	InfluxDB
Specific characteristics	GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and... » more	InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It... » more
Competitive advantages	1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model... » more	Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,... » more
Typical application scenarios	Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system. » more	IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available... » more
Key customers	Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki... » more	InfluxData has more than 1,300 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,... » more
Market metrics	GitHub trending repository » more	Fastest growing database to drive 23,500 GitHub stars Over 600,000 daily active instances » more
Licensing and pricing models	Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription) » more	Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on... » more
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