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DBMS > Greenplum vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. OushuDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. OushuDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegreenplum.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlwww.oushu.com/­documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Oushu
Initial release2005201020152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release7.0.0, September 20233.3 July 20234.0.1, August 202010 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 4.2nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingyeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsKerberos, SSL and role based accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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