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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

greptime.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Embarcadero

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2022

1984

2014

2008

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

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

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

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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