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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. InfluxDB vs. MonetDB vs. STSdb

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgreptime.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.greptime.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperGreptime Inc.MonetDB BVSTS Soft SC
Initial release20162022201320042011
Current release2.7.6, April 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonRustGoCC#
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonnoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSimple rights management via user accountssimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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BigchainDBGreptimeDBInfluxDBMonetDBSTSdb
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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