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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GBase vs. Greenplum vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.gbase.cn

greenplum.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.greenplum.org

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Pivotal Software Inc.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2004

2005

2013

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

7.0.0, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

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

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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