DBMS > Graph Engine vs. GreptimeDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. GreptimeDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

greptime.com

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

www.postgres-xl.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.greptime.com

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Microsoft

Greptime Inc.

Microsoft

TempoIQ

Initial release

2010

2022

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Rust

Server operating systems

.NET

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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