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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. gStore vs. InfinityDB vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

greptime.com

en.gstore.cn

boilerbay.com

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Oracle

Initial release

2022

2016

2002

1980

Current release

1.2, November 2023

4.0

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted free version is available

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++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

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

Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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