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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. GreptimeDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Ingres vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareWell established RDBMSLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitecachelot.iogreptime.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdocs.greptime.comdocs.heavy.aidocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperGreptime Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Actian CorporationSybase, SAP
Initial release2015202220161974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s1993
Current release5.10, January 202211.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++RustC++ and CUDAC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonnoyesyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationIngres ReplicatorMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Cachelot.ioGreptimeDBHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022IngresSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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