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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. KairosDB vs. Speedb vs. Transbase vs. YugabyteDB

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
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Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitegriddb.netgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.speedb.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netkairosdb.github.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmldocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperToshiba CorporationSpeedbTransaction Software GmbHYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20132013202019872017
Current release5.1, August 20221.2.2, November 2018Transbase 8.3, 20222.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availablecommercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nonoyesyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioningHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesSource-replica replicationBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelnoyesyesDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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GridDBKairosDBSpeedbTransbaseYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Speedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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Open source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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