DB-EnginesExtremeDB for everyone with an RTOSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Greenplum vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic 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.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegreenplum.orgwww.gridgain.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.GridGain Systems, Inc.Community supported by Red HatKinetica
Initial release20052007201420122014
Current release7.0.0, September 2023GridGain 8.5.17.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaC, C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 4.2yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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
GreenplumGridGainHawkular MetricsKineticaLokiJS
DB-Engines blog posts

New kids on the block: database management systems implemented in JavaScript
1 December 2014, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

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

1. Introducing the Greenplum Database - Data Warehousing with Greenplum [Book]
6 December 2018, oreilly.com

RSA: EMC integrates Hadoop with Greenplum database
26 February 2013, DatacenterDynamics

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

Greenplum 6 review: Jack of all trades, master of some
7 November 2019, InfoWorld

provided by Google News

GridGain Announces Call for Speakers for Virtual Apache Ignite Summit 2024
8 February 2024, PR Newswire

GridGain's 2023 Growth Positions Company for Strong 2024
25 January 2024, Datanami

GridGain Named in the 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for Event Stream Processing
22 August 2023, GlobeNewswire

GridGain to Sponsor, Exhibit at Kafka Summit 2024 in London
12 March 2024, PR Newswire

GridGain Showcases Power of Apache Ignite at Community Over Code Conference
5 October 2023, Datanami

provided by Google News

Waiting for Red Hat OpenShift 4.0? Too late, 4.1 has already arrived… • DEVCLASS
5 June 2019, DevClass

provided by Google News

Kinetica Elevates RAG with Fast Access to Real-Time Data
26 March 2024, Datanami

Kinetica Delivers Real-Time Vector Similarity Search
21 March 2024, insideBIGDATA

Kinetica ramps up RAG for generative AI, empowering enterprises with real-time operational data
18 March 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Kinetica Launches Generative AI Solution for Real-Time Inferencing Powered by NVIDIA AI Enterprise
18 March 2024, GlobeNewswire

Transforming spatiotemporal data analysis with GPUs and generative AI
30 October 2023, InfoWorld

provided by Google News

LokiJS - A JavaScript Database
18 November 2014, iProgrammer

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

AllegroGraph logo

Graph Database Leader for AI Knowledge Graph Applications - The Most Secure Graph Database Available.
Free Download

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Present your product here