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Name

Description

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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Spatial extension of H2

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	9.23
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Thomas Mueller

CNRS

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2005

2013

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

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

depending on model

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

Role based authorization

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