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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. Hypertable vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx

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NameGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegreptime.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.greptime.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGreptime Inc.Hypertable Inc.SAP infoformerly SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2022200919922001
Current release0.9.8.11, March 201617, July 20153.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageRustC++C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
C++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlSimple rights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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GreptimeDBHypertableSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSphinx
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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