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DBMS > Blueflood vs. GreptimeDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GreptimeDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RavenDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score27.71
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websiteblueflood.iogreptime.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbravendb.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.greptime.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdblearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperRackspaceGreptime Inc.MicrosoftHibernating Rhinos
Initial release20132022201320142010
Current release2.7.6, April 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaRustGoC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infoJSON typesno
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 indexesnoyesnoyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonnoJavaScriptyes
TriggersnonoJavaScriptyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*yes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSimple rights management via user accountssimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAuthorization levels configured per client per database
More information provided by the system vendor
BluefloodGreptimeDBInfluxDBMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDBRavenDB
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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