DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. Hive vs. Ignite vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. Hive vs. Ignite vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

greptime.com

hive.apache.org

ignite.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

docs.greptime.com

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Alibaba

Greptime Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Apache Software Foundation

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2022

2012

2015

2021

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

Apache Ignite 2.6

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

C++, Java, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

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 managed on TSDB instance level

Simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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Specific characteristics

GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Key customers

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metrics

GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing models

GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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