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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. PostGIS vs. Sphinx 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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

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	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

postgis.net/documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

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

Developer

Esgyn

Greptime Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2015

2022

2005

2001

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

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

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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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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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