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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. GreptimeDB vs. GridGain vs. Kdb

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteHigh performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbgreptime.comwww.gridgain.comkx.com
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.greptime.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlcode.kx.com
DeveloperFairCom CorporationGreptime Inc.GridGain Systems, Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release1979202220072000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current releaseV12, November 2020GridGain 8.5.13.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++RustJava, C++, .Netq
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++Pythonyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functions
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).yes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesSimple rights management via user accountsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsrights management via user accounts
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Faircom DB infoformerly c-treeACEGreptimeDBGridGainKdb
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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