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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. MaxDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitegriddb.netmaxdb.sap.comrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperToshiba CorporationSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SiteWhere
Initial release2013198420092010
Current release5.1, August 20227.9.10.12, February 20242.4.1, 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 infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes
TriggersyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding inforange basedSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelACIDAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
More information provided by the system vendor
GridDBMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DRethinkDBSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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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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