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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. HBase vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegreenplum.orghbase.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orghbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOraclePercona
Initial release20052008201120152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release7.0.0, September 20232.3.4, January 202123.3, December 20233.4.10-2.10, November 201710 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROoptionalyesyes
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 4.2nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoCoprocessors in JavanoJavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyeswith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)configurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)noACID infoMVCC
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.noyesyes infooff heap cacheyes infovia In-Memory Engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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