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Name

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

greptime.com

hsqldb.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2022

2001

2013

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD

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

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenarios

For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customers

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metrics

GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing models

GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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