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DBMS > GridGain vs. ObjectBox vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. ObjectBox vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comobjectbox.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.objectbox.ioterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.timescale.com
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.ObjectBox LimitedSTS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.Timescale
Initial release20072017201120182017
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.14.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 20232.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC and C++C#Prolog, RustC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
WindowsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary native API.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonoyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneGraph Partitioningyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)online/offline synchronization between client and servernoneJournaling StreamsSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyesnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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