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DBMS > GridDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OushuDB vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OushuDB vs. QuestDB

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#357  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Websitegriddb.netazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlwww.oushu.com/­documentationquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperToshiba CorporationMicrosoftOushuQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release201320102014
Current release5.1, August 2022V124.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yesFull-featured ANSI SQL supportSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLyesno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelACIDACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKerberos, SSL and role based access
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GridDBMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureOushuDBQuestDB
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