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Name

Description

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.23
Rank	#159	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#260	Overall
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	3.09
Rank	#99	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#341	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

bbs.kingbase.com.cn/chess_wenku-index.html

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2013

1999

2009

2018

Current release

4.6, February 2021

V8.0, August 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

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 Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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)

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Supported programming languages

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

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle. It has the following...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Complete database management platform with Integrated Development Environment Tool,...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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New applications for transactional and mixed workloads that need to integrate with...
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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The main customers are: China National Petroleum Corporation China Petrochemical...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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At present, the main market is in China, but expansion to the international market...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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Business license. Various sales modes: for example, sales by set, sales by CPU quantity,...
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