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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. Heroic vs. LeanXcale vs. PostGIS vs. SingleStore

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NameGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitegreptime.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.leanxcale.compostgis.netwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationdocs.greptime.comspotify.github.io/­heroicpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperGreptime Inc.SpotifyLeanXcaleSingleStore Inc.
Initial release20222014201520052013
Current release3.4.2, February 20248.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageRustJavaCC++, Go
Server operating systemsAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infothrough Apache Derbyyesyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
C
Java
Scala
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSimple rights management via user accountsyes infobased on PostgreSQLFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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GreptimeDBHeroicLeanXcalePostGISSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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