DBMS > GreptimeDB vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. SiriDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. SiriDB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Open Source Time Series DBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

greptime.com

quasar.ai

siridb.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.siridb.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Greptime Inc.

quasardb

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Cesbit

SiteWhere

Initial release

2022

2009

2017

2010

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

Numeric data

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

with tags

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes, using Riak Security

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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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

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

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