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DBMS > GreptimeDB vs. HyperSQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. HyperSQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegreptime.comhsqldb.orgopentsdb.netgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.greptime.comhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperGreptime Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2022200120112016
Current release2.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageRustJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonJava, SQLnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono
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GreptimeDBHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBOpenTSDBTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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