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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. Kinetica vs. SQL.JS

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 CPUsPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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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
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitegreenplum.orgwww.h2database.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.kinetica.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.kinetica.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.Thomas MuellerCNRSKineticaAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20052005201320122012
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 3.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaJavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
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 nodesShardingnonenoneShardingnone
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 replicationnone
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 configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
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 levelno

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