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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. KairosDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

greptime.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

kairosdb.github.io

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Greptime Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2022

2013

2010

2023

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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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

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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