DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. Kingbase vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. Kingbase vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

greenplum.org

www.kingbase.com.cn

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

docs.greenplum.org

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Pivotal Software Inc.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2015

2005

1999

2010

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

since Version 4.2

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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