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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Rdb vs. VelocityDB vs. VoltDB

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitegriddb.netwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlvelocitydb.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuidedocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperToshiba CorporationProgress Software CorporationOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)VelocityDB IncVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20131984198420112010
Current release5.1, August 2022OpenEdge 12.2, March 20207.4.1.1, 20217.x11.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C#Java, C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMSAny that supports .NETLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yes infoclose to SQL 92yesnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
.NetJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).NetC#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoJava
TriggersyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelACIDyes, on a single nodeACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers and groupsBased on Windows AuthenticationUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
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GridDBOpenEdgeOracle RdbVelocityDBVoltDB
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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