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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. MaxDB vs. Snowflake vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#363	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#54	Key-value stores
	#22	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Greptime Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2022

1984

2014

2022

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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++

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

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

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, using FoundationDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users and roles

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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

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Licensing and pricing models

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