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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Graphite vs. GreptimeDB vs. TiDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgreptime.compingcap.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.greptime.comdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperAxibase CorporationChris DavisGreptime Inc.PingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2013200620222016
Current release155858.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonRustGo, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringNumeric data onlyyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoPythonno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSimple rights management via user accountsFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
AxibaseGraphiteGreptimeDBTiDB
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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