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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. MonetDB vs. Speedb vs. Tkrzw vs. Yaacomo

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA relational database management system that stores data in columnsAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitegriddb.netwww.monetdb.orgwww.speedb.iodbmx.net/­tkrzwyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperToshiba CorporationMonetDB BVSpeedbMikio HirabayashiQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20132004202020202009
Current release5.1, August 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 20230.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesnonoyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Rnono
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesnoneSource-replica replication
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelACIDyesACID
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.yesyesyes infousing specific database classesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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GridDBMonetDBSpeedbTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetYaacomo
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Speedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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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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Open source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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