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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. KairosDB vs. Newts vs. OpenTSDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

greptime.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

opennms.github.io/newts

opentsdb.net

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Greptime Inc.

OpenNMS Group

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

8Kdata

Initial release

2022

2013

2014

2011

2016

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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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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