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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Riak KV vs. RRDtool vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

griddb.net

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

Amazon Web Services

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Tobias Oetiker

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2013

2021

2009

1999

2010

Current release

5.1, August 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

1.8.0, 2022

7.3.0, May 2020

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

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

HP-UX
Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

SQL-like query language

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

in-process shared library
Pipes

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users and 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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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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