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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. STSdb

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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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	6.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#180	Overall
	#82	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#362	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

greenplum.org

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

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

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

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SADAS s.r.l.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2005

2009

1984

2006

2011

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

7.4.1.1, 2021

8.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

HP Open VMS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

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

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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