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DBMS > GBase vs. GreptimeDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GreptimeDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. Sphinx

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#343  Overall
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score123.05
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.gbase.cngreptime.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.greptime.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2sphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Greptime Inc.IBMSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release200420221983 infohost version2001
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c12.1, October 20163.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonRustC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPythonyesno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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GBaseGreptimeDBIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2Sphinx
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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