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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

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

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	Object oriented DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Greptime Inc.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Facebook, Inc.

Vaticle

Initial release

2022

2011

2013

2016

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

Synchronous replication via raft

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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Specific characteristics

GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantages

- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenarios

For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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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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