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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. InfinityDB vs. IRONdb vs. KairosDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitegreenplum.orgboilerbay.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedkairosdb.github.iospark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.Circonus LLC.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20052002201720132014
Current release7.0.0, September 20234.0V0.10.20, January 20181.2.2, November 20183.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaScala
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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 4.2nononono
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes, in Luanono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on Cassandrayes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnonono
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.nonononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonosimple password-based access controlno

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