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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Manticore Search vs. RethinkDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. TypeDB

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibrarySpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitegriddb.netmanticoresearch.comrethinkdb.comwww.timescale.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netmanual.manticoresearch.comrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.timescale.comtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperToshiba CorporationManticore SoftwareThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017TimescaleVaticle
Initial release20132017200920172016
Current release5.1, August 20226.0, February 20232.4.1, August 20202.15.0, May 20242.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++CJava
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesFixed schemaschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.noCan index from XMLnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like query languagenoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
TriggersyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding inforange basedyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnoyesnoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesAtomic single-document operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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GridDBManticore SearchRethinkDBTimescaleDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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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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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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