DBMS > Greenplum vs. Hazelcast vs. MaxDB vs. OrientDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Hazelcast vs. MaxDB vs. OrientDB vs. SAP HANA

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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.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Hazelcast

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

SAP

Initial release

2005

2008

1984

2010

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Java, Javascript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes

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