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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Hypertable vs. OrigoDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. SingleStore

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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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	7.71
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#271	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

origodb.com/docs

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Robert Friberg et al

OpenPie

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2005

2009

under the name LiveDB

2013

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.1, January 2023

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Role based authorization

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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