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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright vs. openGauss

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Analytic 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.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#175  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbgreenplum.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaPivotal Software Inc.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Huawei and openGauss community
Initial release200520052019
Current release7.0.0, September 20233.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC, C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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