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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Greenplum vs. HyperSQL vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.greenplum.org

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Pivotal Software Inc.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2014

2005

2001

1999

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

7.0.0, September 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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