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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Greenplum vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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 relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.39
Rank	#47	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	1.70
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

greenplum.org

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.greenplum.org

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Pivotal Software Inc.

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2012

2005

2004

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

7.0.0, September 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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