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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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

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Score	3.95
Rank	#73	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

greptime.com

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

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

Developer

Greptime Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2022

2009

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

Erlang

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

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

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

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

yes, using Riak Security

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Specific characteristics

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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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