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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. SAP IQ vs. TimescaleDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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Description

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	4.06
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

greptime.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.timescale.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Greptime Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Timescale

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2022

1994

2017

2009

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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