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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Greenplum vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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.

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

greenplum.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Pivotal Software Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2005

2014

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

7.0.0, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Relationships in graphs

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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