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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. InfluxDB vs. IRONdb vs. RethinkDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitegreptime.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rethinkdb.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.greptime.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperGreptime Inc.Circonus LLC.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Yugabyte Inc.
Initial release20222013201720092017
Current release2.7.6, April 2024V0.10.20, January 20182.4.1, August 20202.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageRustGoC and C++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonnoyes, in Luayes infosql, plpgsql, C
TriggersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding inforange basedHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic single-document operationsDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlSimple rights management via user accountssimple rights management via user accountsnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsyes
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GreptimeDBInfluxDBIRONdbRethinkDBYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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