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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. Netezza vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Open Source Time Series DBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

greptime.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

siridb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Greptime Inc.

IBM

Cesbit

Mireo

Initial release

2022

1983

host version

2000

2017

2020

Current release

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

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

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

included in appliance

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Source-replica replication

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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

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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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