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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. Memgraph vs. TerminusDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

greptime.com

memgraph.com

terminusdb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

memgraph.com/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.xtdb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

DataChemist Ltd.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2022

2017

2018

2019

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Clojure

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Journaling Streams

yes, each node contains all data

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

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

in-memory journaling

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Users, roles and permissions

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Memgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantages

- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenarios

For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Key customers

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metrics

GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing models

GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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