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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA relational database management system that stores data in columnsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector 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
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitegriddb.netazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.monetdb.orgquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperToshiba CorporationMicrosoftMonetDB BVquasardbSiteWhere
Initial release20132015200420092010
Current release5.1, August 2022V1Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tablesSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable 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 jobsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
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 persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
More information provided by the system vendor
GridDBMicrosoft Azure AI SearchMonetDBQuasardbSiteWhere
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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