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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Greenplum vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiteWhere vs. TimesTen

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAnalytic 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.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.00
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score9.23
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#367  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score1.35
Rank#165  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgreenplum.orgwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.greenplum.orgwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAltibasePivotal Software Inc.SiteWhereOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release199920052014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20101998
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20237.0.0, September 202310 R1, October 201811 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 4.2yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesuser defined functionsPL/SQL
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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