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DBMS > Greenplum vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Spatial extension of H2An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial 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
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitegreenplum.orgwww.h2database.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.Thomas MuellerCNRSHypertable Inc.Kinetica
Initial release20052005201320092012
Current release7.0.0, September 20232.2.220, July 20230.9.8.11, March 20167.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C, C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 4.2nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaJavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infobased on H2nouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infobased on H2selectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2noAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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