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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. IBM Db2 vs. PostGIS vs. SiriDB vs. YDB

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen Source Time Series DBMSA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitegreenplum.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2postgis.netsiridb.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2postgis.net/­documentationdocs.siridb.comydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.IBMCesbitYandex
Initial release20051983 infohost version200520172019
Current release7.0.0, September 202312.1, October 20163.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CC
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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 4.2yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesnoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yes infobased on PostgreSQLyesActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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