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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. KeyDB vs. Prometheus

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NameGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsOpen-source TimeSeries DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.17
Rank#358  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#258  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score7.62
Rank#57  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitegreptime.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
prometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.greptime.comdocs.keydb.devprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperGreptime Inc.EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.
Initial release202220192015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageRustC++Go
Server operating systemsDocker
Linux
macOS
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeFixed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesNumeric data only
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonLuano
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access control and ACLno
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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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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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