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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. HyperSQL vs. XTDB vs. YTsaurus

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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

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

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

greenplum.org

hsqldb.org

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

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Yandex

Initial release

2005

2001

2019

2023

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

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

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Clojure
Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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

Access Control Lists

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