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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP HANA vs. SpaceTime

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score44.27
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitegriddb.netazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverhelp.sap.com/­hana
DeveloperToshiba CorporationMicrosoftMicrosoftSAPMireo
Initial release20132015198920102020
Current release5.1, August 2022V1SQL Server 2022, November 20222.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Appliance or cloud-serviceLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noyesyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) JavaSQLScript, Rno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationyesFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
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 containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelnoACIDACIDno
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.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes
More information provided by the system vendor
GridDBMicrosoft Azure AI SearchMicrosoft SQL ServerSAP HANASpaceTime
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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