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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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.71
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

greenplum.org

hsqldb.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

IBM

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2005

2001

2017

2019

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

2.0

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Active-active shard replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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