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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. GreptimeDB vs. Infobright vs. KairosDB vs. OpenTSDB

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitegreenplum.orggreptime.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.greptime.comkairosdb.github.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.Greptime Inc.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20052022200520132011
Current release7.0.0, September 20231.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageRustCJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.yes infosince Version 4.2nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPythonnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiessimple password-based access controlno
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GreenplumGreptimeDBInfobrightKairosDBOpenTSDB
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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