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DBMS > Greenplum vs. H2GIS vs. Kinetica vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. H2GIS vs. Kinetica vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VoltDB

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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.Spatial extension of H2Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitegreenplum.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.kinetica.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.CNRSKineticaSAP infoformerly SybaseVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20052013201219922010
Current release7.0.0, September 20237.1, August 202117, July 201511.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++Java, C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
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 4.2nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2user defined functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or PerlJava
Triggersyesyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on H2Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2Access rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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