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

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Spatial extension of H2Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score9.20
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score8.14
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#360  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#229  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score1.01
Rank#201  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitegreenplum.orgwww.h2database.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.kinetica.comrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.kinetica.comdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.Thomas MuellerCNRSKineticaRockset
Initial release20052005201320122019
Current release7.0.0, September 20232.2.220, July 20237.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesdynamic typing
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 4.2nononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaJavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infobased on H2user defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingAutomatic sharding
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 H2Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
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 H2Access rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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