DBMS > Greenplum vs. Immudb vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Immudb vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Postgres-XL

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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.

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#14	Vector DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

greenplum.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.jaguardb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

docs.immudb.io

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Codenotary

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2005

2020

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

1.2.3, April 2022

3.3 July 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

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

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like syntax

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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