DBMS > GreptimeDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

greptime.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

rethinkdb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

rethinkdb.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Percona

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SAP

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2022

2015

2009

2010

2011

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

2.4.1, August 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

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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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