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DBMS > Altibase vs. GreptimeDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GreptimeDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. ScyllaDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitealtibase.comgreptime.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.greptime.comdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperAltibaseGreptime Inc.Hyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationScyllaDB
Initial release199920221974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2015
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202311.2, May 2022ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++RustGoCC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyes
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.nononono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsPythonnoyesyes, Lua
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesIngres Replicatorselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes infoMVCCyes
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.yesnonoyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSimple rights management via user accountstoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per object
More information provided by the system vendor
AltibaseGreptimeDBHyprcubdIngresScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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