DBMS > GreptimeDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Prometheus vs. Realm vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Prometheus vs. Realm vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

greptime.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

prometheus.io

realm.io

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

prometheus.io/docs

realm.io/docs

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2022

2021

2015

2014

2012

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

none

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

none

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

yes

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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Specific characteristics

GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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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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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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