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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Greenplum vs. Ingres vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Greenplum vs. Ingres vs. Machbase Neo

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Well established RDBMSTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orggreenplum.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmachbase.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.greenplum.orgdocs.actian.com/­ingresmachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffPivotal Software Inc.Actian CorporationMachbase
Initial release201420051974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2013
Current release7.0.0, September 202311.2, May 2022V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infosince Version 4.2no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationIngres Replicatorselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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