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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. NSDb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

greptime.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

nsdb.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Greptime Inc.

IBM

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2022

2014

2017

1992

Current release

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

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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

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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