About Greptime Technology Co., Ltd.
Greptime is the company founded in 2022 by engineers from Alibaba, Ant Group and DiDi that develops GreptimeDB, an open-source observability database written in Rust. Its proposition replaces the usual combination of separate systems for metrics, logs and traces with a single columnar engine that stores all three signals in one data model and queries them with SQL and PromQL.
The product accepts ingestion through standard protocols such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus Remote Write, Loki Push and Elasticsearch Bulk, and uses object storage as its primary medium, with compression that the company says cuts storage costs by up to fifty times compared with traditional stacks. On top of the open core, Greptime offers an Enterprise edition with read replicas, workload isolation, automated repartitioning and region load balancing, plus GreptimeCloud, a fully managed database service for teams that do not want to run the infrastructure themselves.
Its official English website shows production deployments in cloud platforms, connected vehicles, e-commerce and industry, including the migration of hundreds of terabytes of logs from Loki with cost reductions above sixty percent. The company also maintains Chinese documentation and community channels, and targets platform and IoT teams that need real-time observability without multiplying systems.
The product accepts ingestion through standard protocols such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus Remote Write, Loki Push and Elasticsearch Bulk, and uses object storage as its primary medium, with compression that the company says cuts storage costs by up to fifty times compared with traditional stacks. On top of the open core, Greptime offers an Enterprise edition with read replicas, workload isolation, automated repartitioning and region load balancing, plus GreptimeCloud, a fully managed database service for teams that do not want to run the infrastructure themselves.
Its official English website shows production deployments in cloud platforms, connected vehicles, e-commerce and industry, including the migration of hundreds of terabytes of logs from Loki with cost reductions above sixty percent. The company also maintains Chinese documentation and community channels, and targets platform and IoT teams that need real-time observability without multiplying systems.