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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. JaguarDB vs. KairosDB vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

greptime.com

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

kairosdb.github.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Greptime Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2022

2015

2013

2000

2014

Current release

3.3 July 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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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

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

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