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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. Netezza vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

greptime.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Greptime Inc.

IBM

informationpartners gmbh

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2022

2000

2015

2014

Current release

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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

Linux

included in appliance

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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

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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

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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