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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Hypertable vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Well established RDBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

greenplum.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

docs.actian.com/ingres

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2005

2009

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1989

1984

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

11.2, May 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

Ingres Replicator

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

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