DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Greenplum vs. PostGIS vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Greenplum vs. PostGIS vs. Sphinx

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

postgis.net/documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Esgyn

Pivotal Software Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2015

2005

2001

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Spatial database management systems
6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

The DB-Engines ranking includes now search engines
4 February 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Chapter 1. Introducing the Greenplum Database
6 December 2018, oreilly.com

VMware Greenplum on AWS: Parallel Postgres for Enterprise Analytics at Scale
9 September 2019, AWS Blog

Greenplum 6 ventures outside the analytic box
19 March 2019, ZDNet

EMC and Greenplum Dress Elephant for IT Parade
8 December 2011, WIRED

EMC Introduces Breakthrough 'Big Data' Computing System
13 October 2010, PR Newswire

provided by Google News

Switching From Sphinx to MkDocs Documentation — What Did I Gain and Lose?
2 February 2024, Towards Data Science

Manticore is a Faster Alternative to Elasticsearch in C++
25 July 2022, hackernoon.com

Beyond the Concert Hall: 5 Organizations Making a Difference in Classical Music in 2018
22 December 2018, WQXR Radio

The Pirate Bay was recently down for over a week due to a DDoS attack
29 October 2019, The Hacker News

Leading Local Search Engine (Just) Dials Open Source for a Growth Call!
1 September 2010, Open Source For You

provided by Google News

Share this page