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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Greenplum vs. HugeGraph vs. PostgreSQL

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Analytic 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.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
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Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score645.54
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cngreenplum.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.postgresql.org
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orghugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.postgresql.org/­docs
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Pivotal Software Inc.BaiduPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developer
Initial release2004200520181989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c7.0.0, September 20230.916.3, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infosince Version 4.2noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyesnoyes infostandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasepartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesvia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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