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Name

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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

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

greptime.com

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

www.starrocks.io

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

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

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Circonus LLC.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2022

2017

2020

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.3, June 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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++

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

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)

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

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

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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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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