# GridDB Reviews **Vendor:** Toshiba **Category:** [Time Series Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/time-series-databases) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 27 ## About GridDB GridDB is a database that offers both speed and scaling for mission critical big-data applications. ## GridDB Reviews ### 1. Versatile Database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kaustubh Y. | Graduate Student, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2023 **What do you like best about GridDB?** The best thing I like about GridDB is that it is open source. I am freely able to modify it and collaborate with other developers easily. It supports Python with various API, which I know well and which I use for data querying. The data access is high-speed, even if there is a large amount of data. **What do you dislike about GridDB?** I had to go through various tutorials to learn GridDB, which took me a lot of time and effort during my work. It does not come in help if I have some complex data structures. **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** GridDB has features like data integrity and reliability which helped me during system failures. As it is open source, I can easily connect with other developers and improve my overall work quality. It handles a large amount of data very quickly and I can query and get quick results which helped my project run ahead of time. ### 2. Exquisite software to perform database mirroring and log shippings **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harry B. | Senior Data Engineer, Machinery, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2024 **What do you like best about GridDB?** The performance of the tool is something I like, as it speeds up my work. I like creating parts such as tables and indexes without writing code. **What do you dislike about GridDB?** So far, I have never felt upset about the tool and there is nothing that I dislike. **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has robust indexing and catching mechanism that help ensure speedy data retrival from databases using sql scripts. ### 3. Very practical and very stylish program for data querying and shifting **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Isabel C. | Lead IT Technician, Consumer Goods, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024 **What do you like best about GridDB?** Performs at high speeds whenever I need it the most so large datasets can be handled effectively. **What do you dislike about GridDB?** At the beginning the learning curve is fast but it requires a bit of effort to implement complex structures. **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows versatile data storage and retrieval in JSON format and the JSON like data is really easy to query. ### 4. Transform your business with Grid: The No-code platform for building and deploying internal tools **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Achsah P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2023 **What do you like best about GridDB?** GridDB provides a simple drag-and-drop interface for creating and deploying applications, eliminating the need for coding skills. It enables real-time visualisation of all collected data, providing a comprehensive view of business processes. **What do you dislike about GridDB?** GridDB is primarily designed for traditional industries like manufacturing, mining, F&B, logistics, and warehousing. It may not be suitable for businesses in other industries that have unique data management needs. **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** GridDB helps businesses collect, store, and analyse data generated by people, processes, and machines in a simple and efficient manner. It's real-time data visualisation, and reporting tools allow businesses to quickly analyse their data and make informed decisions, reducing time and effort. ### 5. Unleashing The Power Of Big Data: The High-Performance NoSQL Database for IOT **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prem C. | Data Science Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2023 **What do you like best about GridDB?** GridDB is optimized for handling large amounts of time-series data, which makes it well-suited for IoT andbig data applicatios. GridDB is distributed database that allows for horizontal scalability, meaning that it can easily handle and increase in data volume by adding more nodes to the cluster. **What do you dislike about GridDB?** GridDB is designed for use in small to medium-sized clusters and may not be suitable for very large-scale deployments. GridDB's query capabilities are limited compared to other database systems, which may make it less suitable for complex data processing tasks. **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** GridDB is optimized for handling large amounts of incoming data in real-time, making it well-suited for IoT and other applications that generate high-velocity data streams. GridDB is optimized for low-latency data access, making it well-suited for applications that require fast, real-time data processing. ### 6. Optimized iot with griddb **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** PREM R. | Data Scientist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2023 **What do you like best about GridDB?** Parrlel processing on distribution a large data set. Provide very good efficieny . Just because of this I use it **What do you dislike about GridDB?** Currently I am exploring and I am not finding any dislike I loved it **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time downsampling More effective comparison Append optimization ### 7. Optimized database for pictorial and graphical data collection in vector form **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raja S. | Automation Tester, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** The GridDB is fast at loading vector form data with new insights on data querying, also computation is more powerful to run machine learning algorithms when compared to documentdb in AWS. **What do you dislike about GridDB?** The dislike includes more data preprocessing to insert the data and also data post-processing once we get the data from database. The improvements needed in data viewing which is more readable format. **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in storing graphical data, which exists in vector form, and also pixel data to build an image. The productivity lies in the usage of services like numpy values. ### 8. Performance intensive in-Memory NoSQL database **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gulasan M. | Senior Database Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** GridDB is most helpful because it supports hybrid compostion and fulfills most of the requirements of the applications. No need to depend on another database, and it saves costs. **What do you dislike about GridDB?** As GridDB is new to the market, fewer technical resource is available. As of now, we have installed and practiced on; hence nothing much to say about dislike. We are happy while install it. **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** GridDB is an In-Memory NoSQL open-source database as it is an open source database, so saving from license costs and fulfilling all applications and business needs. ### 9. The Best No SQL Time Series Database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** vijay b. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** The Best Thing About GridDB is the consumption of memory it's taking to low and it's highly scalable and faster compare to other databases in the market. and also it's open source. **What do you dislike about GridDB?** The documentation of GRIDDB is not good. and The Integration becomes difficult sometimes lack of proper documentation. **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using GRIDDB because of the viewing logs of our upcoming product. we integrate GRIDDB with Grafana and this makes the data visualization user-friendly. And The Best thing is it's totally free. ### 10. NoSQL database to manage Large data **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prakash C. | Developer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** Its very easy to use and capable of managing large data as it auto scales when comes to larger memory utilisation by this performance also increases. It is very fast to get data and computation level is also very fast. **What do you dislike about GridDB?** Need to work on displaying data. As it is new so need to work on documentation part for better understanding. **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its help us in managing the customer details historically as we have very large of customers and it's difficult to manage and get details of customer from RDBMS. ### 11. Best in class in data storage **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nikhil V. | Technical Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** I like the user interface because it is very easy to use and secure tool. It is great for storing data with encrypted form. Customer support is top notch always ready to help to your issues or queries. It is very scalable and reliable tool available in the market. **What do you dislike about GridDB?** Nothing as such issue for me, We are fully satisfied with this db tool. **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to store data without any hassle with encrypted form. It saves our important data from loss and system failure. It boosts our business scalability, productivity and reliability. It saves our lots of time and money. ### 12. Fast and Reliable for managing large Data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pinki K. | Technical Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** Its very fast and easy to manage large data with gridDB. It take less memory consumption and provides fast output. Its good for managing historical data for any organization. **What do you dislike about GridDB?** Its just new database so need to work more on documentation part so that user can easily understand the implementation. And need to work on integration part with other tools. **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** By using this now we are managing our inventory and customers data historically and get details very fast when needed. ### 13. Highly scalable, High Performace and scalable , reliable DB's **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sasikumar S. | Project manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** The beauty of GridDB is already optimized for Cloud and IoT devices. It has better reliability. Operations cannot be stopped even when we are adding multiple nodes or databases **What do you dislike about GridDB?** They are saying it comparatively has higher performance compared to other vendor products. But in the market, like Cassandra, we have better outcomes with more performance. **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can spin of the DBs without having any lead time. Since it is already optimized for IoT, we can directly integrate it for IoT Projects. It has better performance and high reliability. ### 14. Best open source nosql database with auto scalable and high performing distributed system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Biswajeet S. | Data Analyst GAMMA, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** It has best auto scaling feature when it comes larger memory and it has python and java connector libraries which are helping us to use Griddb inside our applications **What do you dislike about GridDB?** Nothing as such, it is completely open source and it's a best db compared to it's alternates. If troubleshooting support can be there for developers then it would be great **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** In the retail industry we use GridDB as the backend nosql db for our internal web application in order to store and retrive products images and objects on each seconds ### 15. The best Scalable Nosql DB for OIT and Big Data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2023 **What do you like best about GridDB?** It's key container data model and time series functions which helps in implementing IOT scenarios **What do you dislike about GridDB?** Need to work on the documentation part for effective and easy understanding **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in managing the large client's data and accessing the data which becomes difficult using RDBMS ### 16. Taking advantages of GridDB by Integrating Healthcare IOT devices to analyze generated data. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hammad H. | Oracle DBA | Application Apps DBA | Middleware Admin , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** Light weighting but amazingly high performance Database. **What do you dislike about GridDB?** Not yet faced any issue, if face in future surly will share here. **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** High data is generated by IoT devices (monitors & scanners ) used in hospitals that some other databases are not capable of. ### 17. Best Db for timeseries data collection **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Subham A. | Sr. Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** Its optimization for internet of things , high performance and scalability **What do you dislike about GridDB?** Nothing as such , I think its best for timeseries which it claims **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** In one project we needed to collect metrices from servers that were being used by our end users so to store and run reports on that data we used griddb ### 18. Faster than other no sql databases **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gerrit B. | Senior UI Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** We need to parse through billions of records, we tried Cassandra and Hadoop, but nothing beats GridDB. Integration with NodeJS is excellent. **What do you dislike about GridDB?** Sometimes I feel the scripting language could be more human-readable. **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We parse through billions of data records that are constantly changing. This is the fastest solution to show our clients what they are looking for. ### 19. Great Tool for Data Storage **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brendan N. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** It's a great tool for extensive real time data saving **What do you dislike about GridDB?** It's not super easy to use unless you are familiar with the software and others like it. **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had quickly reached the capacity of memory storage on a few servers, this allowed us to safely scale the memory ### 20. GridDB insights **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sai D. | Business Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** Open-source and easy to use UI. The specific tools included for IOT integration is also very useful **What do you dislike about GridDB?** There are no integration features to integrate directly to AWS tools/ OLAP tools **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping us provide consulting for various clients in retail industry ### 21. Most convinient DB for all developers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** The ease of making a scema and to access the data. A revolution in the field of databases for developers **What do you dislike about GridDB?** The one thing I dislike about GridBD is the missing some important points in their documentations. We have to email them for some really small things **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a developes, we need a database which helps us building a schema without much efforts. Also, it's easy to write complex queries with GridBD ### 22. Incredible high performance NoSQL DB **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** I like it mostly because it's an in memory NoSQL databse, it very scalable and have a perfect performance. It's also optimized for Internet of Things which is great- it's much more faster than MariaDB **What do you dislike about GridDB?** Lack of Java clients (there are C, Python, node.js, go, php, ruby, perl) but not Java client. Beside that everything is great. **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** It resolved an performance issue by switching to it from MariaDB, it's great for highly scalable services. ### 23. Faster than MariaDB **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vamsi krishna B. | Advanced Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** GridDB is highly scalable and reliable when compared to MariaDB **What do you dislike about GridDB?** No proper documentation mentioned for migration of existing queries **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Migrating from MariaDB which gives performance issues and solved them by integrated GridDB ### 24. Amazing Speed and high performace **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** It has a very high scalability and perfomance, which put it high in the list of no SQL databases **What do you dislike about GridDB?** It could become difficult to pick up for a newbie, but it gets better once acquainted. **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is highly scalable and light weight, hence easy to integrate. ### 25. Good alternative for IoT Data Base **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** High performance and high scalability for small projects **What do you dislike about GridDB?** Personally, I liked everything that I was able to try in the project I was working on, I have nothing bad to emphasize **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were looking for a No-sql database solution for an IoT project and GridDB met our requirements ### 26. Powerful Time Series Database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** Easy integration with Grafana makes data visualization user-friendly. **What do you dislike about GridDB?** Query performance can sometimes be a little unpredictable as the dataset grows. **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** GridDB serves as a time series database with rich client support for different programming languages, which makes it straightforward for a software developer to start with. ### 27. No Code Solution to business needs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2022 **What do you like best about GridDB?** It uses data in a very compelling way and is very user friendly **What do you dislike about GridDB?** Integration becomes challenging sometimes and it is less robust **What problems is GridDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** For analyzing data across the teams and build a scale up motion across the teams - [View GridDB pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/griddb/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-19+18%3A36%3A02+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e0910374-0210-4a65-b6cd-a19a0315444b&secure%5Btoken%5D=0d115630969b97c5e6aab27c74fc32f75c619ed96a5b74b4162d2bbe0e2dc481&format=llm_user) ## GridDB Features **Data Management** - Data Model - Data Types **Availability** - Auto Sharding - Auto Recovery - Data Replication **Performance ** - Integrated Cache **Security** - Role-Based Authorization - Authentication - Audit Logs - Encryption **Support** - Multi-Model - Operating Systems **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language ## Top GridDB Alternatives - [Amazon DynamoDB](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-web-services-aws-amazon-dynamodb/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (498 reviews) - [ScyllaDB](https://www.g2.com/products/scylladb/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (423 reviews) - [Epsilon3](https://www.g2.com/products/epsilon3/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (259 reviews)