DBMS > EsgynDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. PostGIS vs. Riak TS vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. PostGIS vs. Riak TS 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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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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	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series 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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

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

Developer

Esgyn

Greptime Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Transwarp

Initial release

2015

2022

2005

2015

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Rust

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Python

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

based on PostgreSQL

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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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