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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RocksDB

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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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

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

Primary database model

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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	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

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

Website

greptime.com

hsqldb.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2022

2001

2012

2013

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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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

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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

optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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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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