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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. Memcached vs. PieCloudDB vs. Sphinx

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NameGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegreptime.comwww.memcached.orgwww.openpie.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.greptime.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGreptime Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOpenPieSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release202220032001
Current release1.6.27, May 20242.1, January 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageRustCC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.no
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
Proprietary protocolCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
User concepts infoAccess controlSimple rights management via user accountsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardno
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Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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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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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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