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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. GreptimeDB vs. Linter vs. Milvus vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

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

RDBMS for high security requirements

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

greptime.com

linter.ru

milvus.io

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.greptime.com

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Greptime Inc.

relex.ru

Tencent

Initial release

2008

2022

1990

2019

2013

Current release

11.0, January 2021

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Rust

C and C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Python

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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