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Name

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores
	#16	Vector DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

greptime.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.jaguardb.com

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Spotify

DataJaguar, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2022

2014

2015

1995

Current release

3.3 July 2023

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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