DBMS > BigObject vs. EsgynDB vs. Greenplum vs. Interbase vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. EsgynDB vs. Greenplum vs. Interbase vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.esgyn.cn

greenplum.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.greenplum.org

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Esgyn

Pivotal Software Inc.

Embarcadero

Initial release

2015

2005

1984

2005

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Multiversion concurreny control

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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