DB-EnginesextremeDB - Data management wherever you need itEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > GridGain vs. Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. TypeDB vs. Virtuoso

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. TypeDB vs. Virtuoso

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonVirtuoso  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsTypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.Virtuoso is a multi-model hybrid-RDBMS that supports management of data represented as relational tables and/or property graphs
Primary database modelColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
Document store
Graph DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Relational DBMS
RDF store
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#9  Object oriented DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Score3.99
Rank#75  Overall
#13  Document stores
#4  Graph DBMS
#2  Native XML DBMS
#40  Relational DBMS
#2  RDF stores
#9  Search engines
Websitewww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewtypedb.comvirtuoso.openlinksw.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbtypedb.com/­docsdocs.openlinksw.com/­virtuoso
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.SpotifyVaticleOpenLink Software
Initial release20072014201320161998
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.12.7.6, April 20242.28.3, June 20247.2.11, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial, open sourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLJavaGoJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infoSQL - Standard relational schema
RDF - Quad (S, P, O, G) or Triple (S, P, O)
XML - DTD, XML Schema
DAV - freeform filesystem objects, plus User Defined Types a/k/a Dynamic Extension Type
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL-92, SQL-200x, SQL-3, SQLX
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
ADO.NET
GeoSPARQL
HTTP API
JDBC
Jena RDF API
ODBC
OLE DB
RDF4J API
RESTful HTTP API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SOAP webservices
SPARQL 1.1
WebDAV
XPath
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nononoyes infoVirtuoso PL
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySynchronous replication via raftChain, star, and bi-directional replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infosubstituted by the relationship featureyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
simple rights management via user accountsyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progressFine-grained Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in addition to typical coarse-grained Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) according to SQL-standard. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)
More information provided by the system vendor
GridGainHeroicInfluxDBTypeDB infoformerly named GraknVirtuoso
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
» more
TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
» more
Virtuoso is a modern multi-model RDBMS for managing data represented as tabular relations...
» more
Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
» more
TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
» more
Performance & Scale — as exemplified by DBpedia and the LOD Cloud it spawned, i.e.,...
» more
Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
» more
Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
» more
Used for — Analytics/BI Conceptual Data Virtualization Enterprise Knowledge Graphs...
» more
Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
» more
Broad use across enterprises and governments including — European Union (EU) US Government...
» more
Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
» more
Largest installed-base ​of Multi-Model RDBMS for AI-friendly Knowledge Graphs Platform...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
» more
Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
» more
Available in both Commercial Enterprise and Open Source (GPL v2) Editions Feature...
» more
News

Deploying InfluxDB and Telegraf to Monitor Kubernetes
17 September 2024

Telegraf 1.32 Release Notes
13 September 2024

An Introductory Guide to Cloud Security for IIoT
12 September 2024

Building Real-Time Android Apps with InfluxDB Cloud: Data Logging, Querying, and Visualization
10 September 2024

How to Use InfluxDB for Real-Time SpringBoot Application Monitoring
5 September 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
GridGainHeroicInfluxDBTypeDB infoformerly named GraknVirtuoso
DB-Engines blog posts

Why Build a Time Series Data Platform?
20 July 2017, Paul Dix (guest author)

Time Series DBMS are the database category with the fastest increase in popularity
4 July 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

Time Series DBMS as a new trend?
1 June 2015, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

GridGain Advances Its Unified Real-Time Data Platform to Help Enterprises Accelerate AI-Driven Data Processing
10 July 2024, insideBIGDATA

GridGain Sponsoring Strategic AI and Kafka Conferences This Month
4 September 2024, Datanami

GridGain in-memory data and generative AI
10 May 2024, Blocks & Files

Data Management News for the Week of July 12; Updates from Cloudera, HerculesAI, Oracle & More
12 July 2024, Solutions Review

GridGain Announces Call for Speakers for Virtual Apache Ignite Summit 2024
8 February 2024, Datanami

provided by Google News

InfluxData's Latest Updates Optimize Time Series Data for Better Performance, Scale and Management
19 September 2024, Integration Developers

Run and manage open source InfluxDB databases with Amazon Timestream
14 March 2024, AWS Blog

InfluxData avoids ’AI magic beans’ in InfluxDB time series database update for enterprises
4 September 2024, VentureBeat

InfluxData Enhances InfluxDB 3.0 with Performance Upgrades and Self-Managed Option
5 September 2024, Datanami

InfluxData makes performance, storage improvements to InfluxDB 3.0
4 September 2024, InfoWorld

provided by Google News

Modelling Biomedical Data for a Drug Discovery Knowledge Graph
6 October 2020, Towards Data Science

Speedb Goes Open Source With Its Speedb Data Engine, A Drop-in Replacement for RocksDB
9 November 2022, Business Wire

Building a Biomedical Knowledge Graph
28 June 2021, Towards Data Science

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

Present your product here