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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. KairosDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake

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NameGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitegreptime.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbobjectbox.iowww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.greptime.comkairosdb.github.iodocs.objectbox.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperGreptime Inc.ObjectBox LimitedSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2022201320172014
Current release1.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageRustJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary native APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonnonouser defined functions
Triggersnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlSimple rights management via user accountssimple password-based access controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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GreptimeDBKairosDBObjectBoxSnowflake
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB 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 scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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