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DBMS > Greenplum vs. IBM Db2 vs. IRONdb vs. SiriDB vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. IBM Db2 vs. IRONdb vs. SiriDB vs. YTsaurus

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityOpen Source Time Series DBMSYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
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Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websitegreenplum.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/siridb.comytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.siridb.comytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.IBMCirconus LLC.CesbitYandex
Initial release20051983 infohost version201720172023
Current release7.0.0, September 202312.1, October 2016V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++CC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxLinuxUbuntu
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infoNumeric datayes
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 4.2nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes, in Luano
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)configurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple rights management via user accountsAccess Control Lists

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