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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Tkrzw vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

greptime.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

dbmx.net/tkrzw

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Microsoft

Mikio Hirabayashi

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2022

2010

2020

1987

Current release

V12

0.9.3, August 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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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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