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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Greenplum

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.84
Rank#206  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score7.08
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebolt.iogreenplum.org
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iodocs.greenplum.org
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.
Initial release20202005
Current release7.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesno
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Server operating systemshostedLinux
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infosince Version 4.2
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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