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DBMS > Greenplum vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. PlanetScale

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA 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 HadoopA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.71
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score3.07
Rank#86  Overall
#15  Document stores
#11  Key-value stores
#47  Relational DBMS
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Websitegreenplum.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlplanetscale.com
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.Hypertable Inc.OraclePlanetScale
Initial release2005200920112020
Current release7.0.0, September 20230.9.8.11, March 201624.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnooptionalyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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