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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx vs. TiDB vs. Vitess

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NameGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.09
Rank#343  Overall
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score4.09
Rank#72  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#202  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitegreptime.comgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
sphinxsearch.compingcap.comvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.greptime.comdocs.objectbox.iosphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stablevitess.io/­docs
DeveloperGreptime Inc.ObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.PingCAP, Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20222017200120162013
Current release4.0 (May 2024)3.5.1, February 20238.2.0, July 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageRustC and C++C++Go, RustGo
Server operating systemsAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
Proprietary native APIProprietary protocolGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonnononoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning (by key range)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infofull support since version 6.6yes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSimple rights management via user accountsyesnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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GreptimeDBObjectBoxSphinxTiDBVitess
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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