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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. HBase vs. PostGIS vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

postgis.net/documentation

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Esgyn

Greptime Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Transwarp

Initial release

2015

2022

2008

2005

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Python

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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