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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. QuestDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Tibero

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score1.78
Rank#140  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitegriddb.netquestdb.iowww.sequoiadb.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netquestdb.io/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indextechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperToshiba CorporationQuestDB Technology IncSequoiadb Ltd.TmaxSoft
Initial release2013201420132003
Current release5.1, August 20226, April 2015
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 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++C and Assembler
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
proprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScriptPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Shardinghorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-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 jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelACID for single-table writesDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesnono infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)
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Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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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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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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