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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. jBASE vs. SiteWhere vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

griddb.net

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SiteWhere

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2013

1991

2010

2012

Current release

5.1, August 2022

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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