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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

griddb.net

www.postgres-xl.org

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2013

2015

Current release

5.1, August 2022

10 R1, October 2018

9.4.0, June 2024

1.0

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

Mozilla public license

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

ACID

MVCC

yes

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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