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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Citus vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Greenplum vs. GreptimeDB

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.78
Rank#61  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comwww.citusdata.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegreenplum.orggreptime.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comdocs.citusdata.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.greenplum.orgdocs.greptime.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Pivotal Software Inc.Greptime Inc.
Initial release20122010201220052022
Current release7.0, November 20238.1, December 20187.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCCRust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedLinuxAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynoyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luauser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.limited functionality with using 'rules'yesPython
TriggersnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDyesACID
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSimple rights management via user accounts
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafCitusFirebase Realtime DatabaseGreenplumGreptimeDB
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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28 November 2023

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