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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

greptime.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

docs.greptime.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2018

2022

2009

2014

Current release

0.10, February 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Groovy
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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