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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GreptimeDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

greptime.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.greptime.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Greptime Inc.

Microsoft

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2015

2022

2015

1998

Current release

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Python

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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