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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. GreptimeDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

greptime.com

hsqldb.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.greptime.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Microsoft

Greptime Inc.

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2010

2022

2001

2015

2000

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

.NET

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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