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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Riak TS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

greptime.com

hsqldb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2022

2001

2015

1992

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

commercial

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

Erlang

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Java, SQL

Erlang

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

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Specific characteristics

GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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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

GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing models

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