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DBMS > GridDB vs. jBASE vs. OpenTSDB vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. jBASE vs. OpenTSDB vs. RRDtool

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitegriddb.netwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseopentsdb.netoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9opentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperToshiba CorporationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTobias Oetiker
Initial release2013199120111999
Current release5.1, August 20225.71.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampoptionalnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data only
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP API
Telnet API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnono
More information provided by the system vendor
GridDBjBASEOpenTSDBRRDtool
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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