DBMS > BoltDB vs. Greenplum vs. Splice Machine vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Greenplum vs. Splice Machine vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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.

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	7.71
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

greenplum.org

splicemachine.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Splice Machine

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2005

2014

2000

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

3.1, March 2021

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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