DBMS > GridDB vs. InfluxDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. SingleStore vs. Solr
System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. InfluxDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. SingleStore vs. Solr
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| Name | GridDB Xexclude from comparison | InfluxDB Xexclude from comparison | PieCloudDB Xexclude from comparison | SingleStore  former name was MemSQL Xexclude from comparison | Solr Xexclude from comparison | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data | DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics | A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP | MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type | A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary database model | Time Series DBMS | Time Series DBMS | Relational DBMS | Relational DBMS | Search engine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Secondary database models | Key-value store Relational DBMS | Spatial DBMS with GEO package | Document store Spatial DBMS Time Series DBMS Vector DBMS | Spatial DBMS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Website | griddb.net | www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview | www.openpie.com | www.singlestore.com | solr.apache.org | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Technical documentation | docs.griddb.net | docs.influxdata.com/influxdb | docs.singlestore.com | solr.apache.org/resources.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Developer | Toshiba Corporation | OpenPie | SingleStore Inc. | Apache Software Foundation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Initial release | 2013 | 2013 | 2013 | 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current release | 5.1, August 2022 | 2.7.6, April 2024 | 2.1, January 2023 | 8.5, January 2024 | 9.6.1, May 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 | Open Source MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available | commercial | commercial free developer edition available | Open Source Apache Version 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service | no | no | yes | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Implementation language | C++ | Go | C++, Go | Java | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Server operating systems | Linux | Linux OS X through Homebrew | hosted | Linux 64 bit version required | All OS with a Java VM runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data scheme | yes | schema-free | yes | yes | yes Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typing predefined data types such as float or date | yes numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp | Numeric data and Strings | yes | yes | yes supports customizable data types and automatic typing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | no | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Secondary indexes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes All search fields are automatically indexed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SQL Support of SQL | SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language) | SQL-like query language | yes | yes but no triggers and foreign keys | Solr Parallel SQL Interface | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| APIs and other access methods | JDBC ODBC Proprietary protocol RESTful HTTP/JSON API | HTTP API JSON over UDP | CLI Client JDBC ODBC | Cluster Management API as HTTP Rest and CLI HTTP API JDBC MongoDB API ODBC | Java API RESTful HTTP/JSON API | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | Java PL/SQL Python R | Bash C C# Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python | .Net Erlang Java JavaScript any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON Perl PHP Python Ruby Scala | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Server-side scripts Stored procedures | no | no | user defined functions | yes | Java plugins | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Triggers | yes | no | no | no | yes User configurable commands triggered on index changes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes | Sharding | Sharding in enterprise version only | yes | Sharding hash partitioning | Sharding | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes | Source-replica replication | selectable replication factor in enterprise version only | yes | Source-replica replication stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | no can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations | spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system | Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers | Immediate Consistency | Immediate Consistency | Eventual Consistency | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign keys Referential integrity | no | no | no | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data | ACID at container level | no | ACID | ACID | optimistic locking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data | yes | yes | yes | yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Durability Support for making data persistent | yes | yes | yes | yes All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log. | 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 | yes | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| User concepts Access control | Access rights for users can be defined per database | simple rights management via user accounts | User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard | Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| GridDB | InfluxDB | PieCloudDB | SingleStore former name was MemSQL | Solr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse.... » more | SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed... » 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 | Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture... » more | SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with... » 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 | PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability... » more | Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Key customers | Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki... » more | InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,... » more | Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc., » more | IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Market metrics | GitHub trending repository » more | Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances » more | Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry... » 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 | PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment；... » more | F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| News | Scaling Data Collection: Solving Renewable Energy Challenges with InfluxDB Deadman Alerts with Grafana and InfluxDB Cloud 3.0 Chasing the Skies: Monitoring Flights with InfluxDB Monitoring Your Cloud Environments and Applications with InfluxDB Webinar Recap: Unleash the Full Potential of Your Time Series Data with InfluxDB and AWS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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