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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. HBase vs. Hypertable vs. Ignite vs. OpenTSDB

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitegreenplum.orghbase.apache.orgignite.apache.orgopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orghbase.apache.org/­book.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHypertable Inc.Apache Software Foundationcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20052008200920152011
Current release7.0.0, September 20232.3.4, January 20210.9.8.11, March 2016Apache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, Java, .NetJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 4.2noyesno
Secondary indexesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersyesyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor on file system levelyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno

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