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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. JaguarDB vs. NSDb vs. ObjectBox vs. SwayDB

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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.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2005

2015

2017

2018

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java, Scala

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

Java
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

yes

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