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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Greenplum vs. Hazelcast vs. Snowflake vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

greenplum.org

hazelcast.com

www.snowflake.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.greenplum.org

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DGraph Labs

Pivotal Software Inc.

Hazelcast

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2017

2005

2008

2014

2009

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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