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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. IRONdb vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

greptime.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Circonus LLC.

SiteWhere

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2022

2017

2010

2018

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

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++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes, in Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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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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