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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Machbase Neo vs. OrigoDB

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Name

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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#19	Object oriented DBMS

Website

greenplum.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

machbase.com

origodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

machbase.com/dbms

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Machbase

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2005

2010

2013

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple password-based access control

Role based authorization

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