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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.09
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

griddb.net

jsqldb.org (offline)

postgis.net

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

postgis.net/documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

Konrad von Backstrom

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2013

2018

2005

1987

Current release

5.1, August 2022

0.8, December 2018

3.4.2, February 2024

Transbase 8.3, 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

GPL v2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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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