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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. SQLite vs. TDengine

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NameGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitegreptime.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
google.github.io/­lovefieldwww.sqlite.orggithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.greptime.comdocs.heavy.aigithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperGreptime Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.GoogleDwayne Richard HippTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20222016201420002019
Current release5.10, January 20222.1.12, February 20173.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageRustC++ and CUDAJavaScriptCC
Server operating systemsAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safariserver-lessLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptActionscript
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
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonnononono
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlSimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoyes
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GreptimeDBHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022LovefieldSQLiteTDengine
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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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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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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