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DBMS > GreptimeDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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NameGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score21.50
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score22.27
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Websitegreptime.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-db
Technical documentationdocs.greptime.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdblearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-db
DeveloperGreptime Inc.Microsoft
Initial release202220132014
Current release2.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageRustGo
Server operating systemsAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hosted
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infoJSON types
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by default
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
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#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonnoJavaScript
TriggersnoJavaScript
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlSimple rights management via user accountssimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item level
More information provided by the system vendor
GreptimeDBInfluxDBMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB
News

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20 March 2025

Telegraf 1.34 Release Notes
12 March 2025

Alerting with InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise
11 March 2025

An Introduction to Database Security
6 March 2025

Building Your First Python Plugin for the InfluxDB 3 Processing Engine
4 March 2025

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