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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sequoiadb

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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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

greptime.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Greptime Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2022

2010

1984

2013

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

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

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual 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

yes, on a single node

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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