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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GreptimeDB vs. Kdb vs. TypeDB

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  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 efficiencyHigh performance Time Series DBMSTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cngreptime.comkx.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.greptime.comcode.kx.comtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Greptime Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcVaticle
Initial release200420222000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032016
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.6, May 20182.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonRustqJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query language (q)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC#C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPythonuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSimple rights management via user accountsrights management via user accountsyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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GBaseGreptimeDBKdbTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
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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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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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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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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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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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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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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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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