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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. GreptimeDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. GreptimeDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RisingWave

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgreptime.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.greptime.comdocs.heavy.aidocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperMicrosoftChris DavisGreptime Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.RisingWave Labs
Initial release20102006202220162022
Current release5.10, January 20221.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CPythonRustC++ and CUDARust
Server operating systems.NETLinux
Unix
Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSON
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoPythonnoUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and Roles
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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityGraphiteGreptimeDBHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022RisingWave
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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