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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GreptimeDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Pinecone

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegreptime.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.greptime.comdocs.heavy.aiwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAlibabaGreptime Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.IBMPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20162022201620172019
Current release5.10, January 20222.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageRustC++ and CUDAC and C++
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonnoyes
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensSimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreGreptimeDBHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022IBM Db2 Event StorePinecone
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB 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 scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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