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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. RDF4J vs. TimescaleDB vs. Trino vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQLMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
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Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitegriddb.netrdf4j.orgwww.timescale.comtrino.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.timescale.comtrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
docs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperToshiba CorporationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.TimescaleTrino Software FoundationRocket Software
Initial release2013200420172012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL1985
Current release5.1, August 20222.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyesoptional
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesdepending on connected data-sourceyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes, depending on connected data-sourceyes
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesdepending on connected data-sourcenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infodepending on connected data-sourceSource-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 Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDdepending on connected data-sourceACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesdepending on connected data-sourceyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSQL standard access controlAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based
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GridDBRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameTimescaleDBTrinoUniData,UniVerse
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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