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DBMS > Greenplum vs. Informix vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenQM vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Informix vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenQM vs. Postgres-XL

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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.A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Multivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegreenplum.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixwww.jaguardb.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orginformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
www.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.IBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.DataJaguar, Inc.Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release20051984201519932014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release7.0.0, September 202314.10.FC5, November 20203.3 July 20233.4-1210 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and JavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesyes
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 4.2noyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingyeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID infoMVCC
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsrights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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