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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. jBASE vs. NSDb vs. Prometheus

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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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

greptime.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

nsdb.io

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.greptime.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

nsdb.io/Architecture

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Greptime Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2022

1991

2017

2015

Current release

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

optional

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
Scala

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

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

Using Apache Lucene

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 can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantages

- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenarios

For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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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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