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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Well established RDBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

greptime.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.actian.com/ingres

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Greptime Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Initial release

2022

2010

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

Current release

12.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Erlang

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Ingres Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

MVCC

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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