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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GreptimeDB vs. Hive vs. MariaDB vs. TDengine

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonMariaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencydata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopMySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.Time Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score93.21
Rank#13  Overall
#9  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitegreptime.comhive.apache.orgmariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
github.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.greptime.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homemariadb.com/­kb/­en/­librarydocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGreptime Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2008202220122009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 19952019
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.1.3, April 202211.3.2, February 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++RustJavaC and C++C
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes infoDynamic columns are supportedyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infowith proprietary extensionsStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBCgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3no
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingseveral options for horizontal partitioning and ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infonot for in-memory storage engineyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infowith MEMORY storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPSimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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MariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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MariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Web, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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MariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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MariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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