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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. InfluxDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TigerGraph

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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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.12
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

griddb.net

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

help.sap.com/hana

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

SAP

Initial release

2013

2010

2017

Current release

5.1, August 2022

2.7.6, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
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

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

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

yes

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

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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