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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Realm vs. Riak TS vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.09
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

griddb.net

realm.io

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

realm.io/docs

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

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Splice Machine

Initial release

2013

2014

2015

2014

Current release

5.1, August 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

3.1, March 2021

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

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

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

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Erlang

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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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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