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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MariaDB vs. Transbase vs. YDB

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NameGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMariaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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 hardwareMySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score91.04
Rank#13  Overall
#9  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitegreptime.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
mariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.greptime.comdocs.heavy.aimariadb.com/­kb/­en/­librarywww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperGreptime Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
Transaction Software GmbHYandex
Initial release202220162009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 199519872019
Current release5.10, January 202211.3.2, February 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription availablecommercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT MariaDB offers MariaDB in a fully managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant.
Implementation languageRustC++ and CUDAC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes infoDynamic columns are supportedyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonnoyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3yesno
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinseveral options for horizontal partitioning and ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infonot for in-memory storage engineyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infowith MEMORY storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlSimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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GreptimeDBHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022MariaDBTransbaseYDB
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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MariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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MariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Web, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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MariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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MariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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