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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Kdb vs. MonetDB vs. Tkrzw vs. Yaacomo

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataHigh performance Time Series DBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegriddb.netkx.comwww.monetdb.orgdbmx.net/­tkrzwyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netcode.kx.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperToshiba CorporationKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMonetDB BVMikio HirabayashiQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003200420202009
Current release5.1, August 20223.6, May 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 20230.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++qCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like query language (q)yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersyesyes infowith viewsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding via remote tablesnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infousing specific database classesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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GridDBKdbMonetDBTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetYaacomo
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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