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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. MySQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Widely used open source RDBMS

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

griddb.net

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

machbase.com

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

machbase.com/dbms

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

Machbase

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2013

1995

1987

Current release

5.1, August 2022

2.7.6, April 2024

V8.0, August 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

16.0

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

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

Numeric data and Strings

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)

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

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

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

selectable replication factor

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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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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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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