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DBMS > Greenplum vs. Hazelcast vs. Infobright vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Hazelcast vs. Infobright vs. Pinecone

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  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.A widely adopted in-memory data gridHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitegreenplum.orghazelcast.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orghazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.HazelcastIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2005200820052019
Current release7.0.0, September 20235.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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 4.2yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesno
Triggersyesyes infoEventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated MapSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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