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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. Interbase vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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NameGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandHigh performance Time Series DBMSMicrosofts flagship relational DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Websitegreptime.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasekx.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-server
Technical documentationdocs.greptime.comdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasecode.kx.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-server
DeveloperGreptime Inc.EmbarcaderoKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMicrosoft
Initial release202219842000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20031989
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20193.6, May 2018SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageRustCqC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infoexport as XML data possibleyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (q)yes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesC++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java
Triggersyesyes infowith viewsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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GreptimeDBInterbaseKdbMicrosoft SQL Server
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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