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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

greptime.com

hbase.apache.org

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Sequoiadb Ltd.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2022

2008

2013

2011

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

proprietary protocol using JSON

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Coprocessors in Java

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Licensing and pricing models

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