DBMS > EJDB vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	7.71
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

greenplum.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.greenplum.org

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Softmotions

Pivotal Software Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2005

2014

2016

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

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

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

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 Locking

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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