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

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

greptime.com

postgis.net

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

postgis.net/documentation

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

Developer

Esgyn

Greptime Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2015

2022

2009

2005

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

C++ API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Python

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

selectable replication factor on file system level

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

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

based on PostgreSQL

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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

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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