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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. STSdb vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerarkDB vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

griddb.net

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

STS Soft SC

Teradata

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2013

2011

2005

2016

2017

Current release

5.1, August 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

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

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

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

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

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

Role-based access control

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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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