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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. MongoDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.09
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	421.08
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

griddb.net

www.mongodb.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

vitess.io

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

MongoDB, Inc

Oracle

Percona

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2013

2009

2011

2015

2013

Current release

5.1, August 2022

6.0.7, June 2023

23.3, December 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

optional

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

yes

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID at container level

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

off heap cache

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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MongoDB provides an integrated suite of cloud database and data services to accelerate...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Built around the flexible document data model and unified API, MongoDB is a developer...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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AI-enriched intelligent apps (Continental, Telefonica, Iron Mountain) Internet of...
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Hundreds of millions downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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MongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses...
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