DBMS > Greenplum vs. Hazelcast vs. MySQL vs. Riak TS vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Hazelcast vs. MySQL vs. Riak TS vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	9.23
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	6.87
Rank	#55	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.47
Rank	#93	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

greenplum.org

hazelcast.com

www.mysql.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Hazelcast

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Rocket Software

Initial release

2005

2008

1995

2015

1985

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

8.3.0, January 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

proprietary syntax

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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