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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. Heroic vs. ObjectBox

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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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

greptime.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Esgyn

Greptime Inc.

Spotify

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2015

2022

2014

2017

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Rust

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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Licensing and pricing models

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