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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TimesTen

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOracles in-memory data grid solutionIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitegriddb.netobjectbox.ioopentsdb.netwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netdocs.objectbox.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperToshiba CorporationObjectBox Limitedcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOracleOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20132017201120071998
Current release5.1, August 202214.1, August 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Telnet API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoPL/SQL
Triggersyesnonoyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBaseShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication
Source-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 infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelACIDnoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
GridDBObjectBoxOpenTSDBOracle CoherenceTimesTen
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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