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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Weaviate vs. XTDB

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NameGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegreptime.comwww.gridgain.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servergithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.greptime.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviatewww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGreptime Inc.GridGain Systems, Inc.MicrosoftWeaviate B.V.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20222007198920192019
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1SQL Server 2022, November 20221.19, May 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate EnterpriseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageRustJava, C++, .NetC++GoClojure
Server operating systemsAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesGraphQL is used as query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanono
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSimple rights management via user accountsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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GreptimeDBGridGainMicrosoft SQL ServerWeaviateXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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