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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. NebulaGraph

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Name

Description

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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#110	Overall
	#20	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.75
Rank	#128	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Website

greptime.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

Greptime Inc.

InterSystems

Vesoft Inc.

Initial release

2022

2018

2019

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

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++

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

depending on used data model

Strong typed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

yes

Role-based access control

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