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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. KairosDB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#367	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

griddb.net

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

kairosdb.github.io

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

SiteWhere

Initial release

2013

2010

Current release

5.1, August 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

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

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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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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