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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. Heroic vs. RRDtool vs. SWC-DB

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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

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

greptime.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Spotify

Tobias Oetiker

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2022

2014

1999

2020

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

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

in-process shared library
Pipes

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

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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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