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* fix(mito2): compare primary key ranges across schema versions Bind FileHandle ranges to the pinned region schema and append cached constant defaults to historical Dense keys. Preserve raw SST statistics, reject inexact bounds, and avoid invalidating views for unrelated metadata changes. Cover schema evolution, default changes, and tombstone retention through real compaction and reopen regressions. Signed-off-by: Lei, HUANG <ratuthomm@gmail.com> * refactor(mito2): report invalid primary key ranges Signed-off-by: Lei, HUANG <ratuthomm@gmail.com> * refactor(mito2): scope primary key ranges to comparisons Keep raw PK bounds only in FileHandleInner and move schema-aware mapping and caching into task-local comparison contexts. Use explicit contexts for compaction overlap checks, window aggregation, and series scans. Preserve pinned-schema isolation, late statistics, and shared file lifecycle state without rebinding every handle. Cover cache isolation across region owners and adapt range fixtures to real Dense encodings. All 1530 mito2 tests and Clippy for all targets with the testing feature pass. Signed-off-by: Lei, HUANG <ratuthomm@gmail.com> * refactor(mito2): cache aligned primary key ranges per file Replace task-local range maps with a single-slot cache in FileHandleInner, keyed by the target schema version. Preserve raw bounds for realignment across snapshots and default changes. Share schema mappers across comparison paths and use copy-on-write SST lists for metadata updates. Simplify range mapping to accept encoded bounds and assert the same-table contract at the file accessor. Signed-off-by: Lei, HUANG <ratuthomm@gmail.com> * docs(mito2): clarify primary key mapper schema snapshot Signed-off-by: Lei, HUANG <ratuthomm@gmail.com> * test(mito2): align primary key range fixtures with table contract Remove obsolete cross-table fallback expectations after region validation became a caller contract. Give compaction fixtures matching table identities, including the active-window L1 scenario. Clarify the mapper precondition and format the simplified alignment call. All 1530 mito2 tests and Clippy for all targets with the testing feature pass. Signed-off-by: Lei, HUANG <ratuthomm@gmail.com> * test(mito2): enable filesystem GC in release unit tests Let unit tests use the filesystem-backed object-store GC path regardless of optimization profile. Keep the production release GC selection unchanged. Signed-off-by: Lei, HUANG <ratuthomm@gmail.com> * perf(mito-codec): skip release value decoding in PK prefix counts Validate field values only in debug builds and unit tests while keeping boundary, truncation, and trailing-byte checks in every build. Cover the linked library in debug and release integration tests, and verify that release unit tests still perform value validation. Signed-off-by: Lei, HUANG <ratuthomm@gmail.com> * test(mito-codec): remove redundant prefix integration tests Retain the codec unit tests and cross-schema compaction regressions while dropping the standalone build-profile test file and its release-only invalid-value expectation. Signed-off-by: Lei, HUANG <ratuthomm@gmail.com> * ci: wait for MySQL to accept authenticated TCP queries Add a healthcheck using the configured test account and database. Docker Compose --wait previously only observed container startup because the fixture image had no healthcheck, allowing metasrv to connect before MySQL initialization completed. Verify readiness with SELECT 1 over TCP rather than the initialization socket. Signed-off-by: Lei, HUANG <ratuthomm@gmail.com> --------- Signed-off-by: Lei, HUANG <ratuthomm@gmail.com>
Metrics, logs, and traces.
One engine, on your infrastructure.
A columnar database for metrics, logs, and traces on object storage. Apache-2.0 licensed core.
User Guide · API Docs · Roadmap 2026 · Slack
stable for production · canary includes pre-releases · nightly is a weekly snapshot of main
Introduction
GreptimeDB is an open-source observability database. Metrics, logs, and traces run on one columnar engine over object storage and share one table model: tags, timestamp, and fields. When signals carry common identifiers such as service, host, or trace ID, you can correlate them in SQL without moving data between databases.
Ingest through OpenTelemetry, Prometheus Remote Write, Loki Push, or Elasticsearch Bulk. Use SQL across observability data and PromQL for metrics. Migrate ingestion one signal at a time without rebuilding your collectors.
One Query Across Signals
OpenTelemetry ingestion writes spans to opentelemetry_traces and log records to
opentelemetry_logs. Both tables carry trace_id, so correlating them is a join:
-- The slowest failed spans in the last hour,
-- with the log lines emitted inside those same traces.
SELECT
t.service_name,
t.span_name,
t.duration_nano / 1000000 AS duration_ms,
l.timestamp AS log_time,
l.severity_text,
l.body
FROM opentelemetry_traces t
JOIN opentelemetry_logs l ON l.trace_id = t.trace_id
WHERE t.timestamp > now() - INTERVAL '1' HOUR
AND t.span_status_code = 'STATUS_CODE_ERROR'
ORDER BY t.duration_nano DESC
LIMIT 20;
Metrics join the same way, on any tag the tables share, such as service,
host, or pod.
Why You Might Use It
- You run Prometheus plus Loki or Elasticsearch and want one backend instead of three
- You have outgrown Prometheus on cardinality or retention and don't want the Thanos/Mimir operational surface
- You are hitting Loki's query performance limits as log volume grows
- You need long retention on object storage without a separate analytics stack
- You want to query telemetry with SQL, not only a domain query language
- You are storing GenAI or agent telemetry (OTel GenAI conventions) alongside infrastructure signals
Learn more in Why GreptimeDB.
What's Supported
| Ingest | OpenTelemetry (OTLP), Prometheus Remote Write, Loki Push, Elasticsearch Bulk, InfluxDB line protocol, gRPC |
| Query | SQL, PromQL, Jaeger-compatible trace queries, MySQL and PostgreSQL wire protocols |
| Storage | S3, GCS, Azure Blob and S3-compatible endpoints as primary storage, with memory and local-disk caches |
| Built in | Retention policies, downsampling, continuous aggregation, explicit table partitioning, and inverted / skipping / fulltext indexes |
Compute and storage are disaggregated: object storage holds the data, while memory and local-disk caches keep recent and frequently queried data close to compute.
Benchmarks
- Agent RCA Bench: LLM agents doing root cause analysis over GreptimeDB versus Prometheus + Loki + Tempo. 40% fewer wrong diagnoses, 48% fewer input tokens, 45% lower cost (write-up)
- GreptimeDB tops JSONBench's billion-record cold run test
- TSBS Benchmark
- More benchmark reports
Compatibility and Migration
Compatibility is per protocol, and query-side coverage is narrower than ingestion.
| Compatible | Not compatible | |
|---|---|---|
| Prometheus | Remote Write ingestion; PromQL queries | Gaps are listed in PromQL compatibility |
| Loki | Push ingestion; dual-write through Grafana Alloy makes the cutover gradual | LogQL and the rest of the Loki query API |
| Elasticsearch | _bulk ingestion in the open-source core; QueryDSL partially, in Enterprise |
Most other Elasticsearch APIs |
Limitations and Edition Boundary
Cluster deployment, object storage, the Flow engine, and every ingestion protocol listed above are in the Apache-2.0 build. Repartitioning, region migration, and index creation are manual operations there.
Read replicas, workload isolation, and automated repartitioning are GreptimeDB Enterprise features, along with enterprise security and governance. The Enterprise overview has the current list, and pricing has the edition comparison.
Architecture
GreptimeDB can run in two modes:
- Standalone — single binary for development and small deployments.
- Distributed — four components, each independently scalable:
- Frontend — protocol entry (OTel, Prometheus, MySQL/PostgreSQL, gRPC, ingestion APIs for Elasticsearch/InfluxDB/Loki) and the distributed query engine. Stateless, scales horizontally.
- Datanode — region engine with WAL, memtable, SST, cache, compaction, and indexes. Persists data to object storage. Elastic.
- Metasrv — metadata, routing, repartitioning, and security. Backed by a pluggable KV layer (etcd or RDS).
- Flownode (optional) — continuous flow computation (streaming and materialized views).
For deeper coverage, see the architecture doc or DeepWiki.
Try GreptimeDB
For AI agents — paste this prompt into your agent:
Read https://docs.greptime.com/SKILL.md and follow the instructions
to deploy, configure, ingest, and query GreptimeDB.
docker run -p 127.0.0.1:4000-4003:4000-4003 \
-v "$(pwd)/greptimedb_data:/greptimedb_data" \
--name greptime --rm \
greptime/greptimedb:latest standalone start \
--http-addr 0.0.0.0:4000 \
--grpc-bind-addr 0.0.0.0:4001 \
--mysql-addr 0.0.0.0:4002 \
--postgres-addr 0.0.0.0:4003
Dashboard: http://localhost:4000/dashboard
Read more in the full Install Guide.
Troubleshooting:
- Cannot connect to the database? Ensure that ports
4000,4001,4002, and4003are not blocked by a firewall or used by other services. - Failed to start? Check the container logs with
docker logs greptimefor further details.
Getting Started
Build From Source
Prerequisites:
- Rust toolchain — nightly, pinned by
rust-toolchain.toml - Protobuf compiler (>= 3.15)
- C/C++ building essentials:
gcc/g++/autoconfand the glibc dev package (libc6-devon Ubuntu,glibc-develon Fedora) - Python toolchain (optional, only for some test scripts)
Build and run:
make # build greptime binary
cargo run -- standalone start # start in standalone mode
Common dev commands:
make fmt # format Rust code
make clippy # lint (fails on warnings)
make test # unit + integration tests (uses cargo-nextest)
make sqlness-test # SQL regression tests
See the Contribution Guidelines for the full developer workflow.
Tools & Extensions
- Kubernetes: GreptimeDB Operator
- Helm Charts: Greptime Helm Charts
- Dashboard: Web UI
- gRPC Ingester: Go, Java, C++, Erlang, Rust, .NET, TypeScript
- Grafana Data Source: GreptimeDB Grafana data source plugin
- Grafana Dashboard: Official Dashboard for monitoring
Project Status
GreptimeDB is generally available, with stable APIs and regular releases. It runs in production at scale — OceanBase Cloud operates 80+ GreptimeDB clusters managing 300 TB of logs, cutting log storage cost by 60%+ after migrating from Grafana Loki. See more in case studies.
Release lines and support windows are in the version reference. For where the project is going, read the v1.0 highlights and the 2026 roadmap.
Community
We invite you to engage and contribute!
If GreptimeDB is useful to you, please star the repo.
License
GreptimeDB is an open-core project. Its core is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
A small set of peripheral, enterprise-only features are gated behind the
enterprise Cargo feature (not built by default) and are governed by the
separate GreptimeDB Enterprise License. Source files under
that license carry an explicit Enterprise License header.
Commercial Support
Scaling observability on your infrastructure? GreptimeDB Enterprise adds the operational, security, and support layer for production deployments. Contact us for details.
Contributing
- Read our Contribution Guidelines.
- Explore Internal Concepts and DeepWiki.
- Pick up a good first issue and join the #contributors Slack channel.
Acknowledgement
Special thanks to all contributors! See AUTHOR.md.
- Uses Apache Arrow™ (memory model)
- Apache Parquet™ (file storage)
- Apache DataFusion™ (query engine)
- Apache OpenDAL™ (data access abstraction)
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