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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. Hypertable vs. InfinityDB vs. mSQL

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Website

greptime.com

boilerbay.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2022

2009

2002

1994

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

4.0

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

C++ API
Thrift

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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.

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

GreptimeDB 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 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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