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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. Interbase vs. MaxDB

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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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

greptime.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Embarcadero

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2022

1984

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

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

Source-replica replication

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantages

- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenarios

For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customers

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

GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing models

GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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