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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. Riak TS

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

greptime.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Spotify

Hypertable Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2022

2014

2009

2015

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

via Elasticsearch

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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