DBMS > BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Oracle Rdb

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.55
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

greenplum.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.greenplum.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Pivotal Software Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2015

2005

2012

1984

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

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

Linux
Windows

hosted

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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

optimistic locking

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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