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About Grafana Mimir
Grafana Mimir is a scalable, high-performance time-series database designed specifically for large-scale monitoring and observability use cases. Developed by Grafana Labs, Mimir is built on top of the Cortex project and is optimized for handling Prometheus metrics at scale. Click here to read the full report of GreptimeDB vs. Grafana Mimir Performance Benchmark.
GreptimeDB vs. Grafana Mimir
| Feature/Aspect | GreptimeDB | Grafana Mimir |
|---|---|---|
| Data Model | Time-Series Database | Time-Series Database |
| Value model | Multi-Value | Single-Value |
| Multi-model | Metrics, Logs & Events | Metrics |
| Ingestion Protocols | SQL gRPC InfluxDB Line Protocol Prometheus Remote Storage OpenTelemetry | Prometheus Remote Storage InfluxDB Line Protocol OpenTelemetry |
| Query Languages | SQL & PromQL | PromQL |
| Continuous Aggregation | Yes (in SQL) | NO |
| Use cases | Monitoring, observability, IoT data analysis, real-time analytics | Monitoring, observability |
| Architecture | Cloud-native and flexible architecture, scaled from Edge to Cloud. | Distributed architecture with replication, and long-term storage on Object Storage. |
| Storage Format | Apache Parquet | Prometheus TSDB storage |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| Scalability | Opensource both single-node and cluster versions.By leveraging Object Storage (S3, and others), separating compute and storage will lead to scaling stateless compute nodes arbitrarily. | Horizontally scalable |
| Written Language | Rust | Golang |
