DBMS > Greenplum vs. JaguarDB vs. OushuDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. JaguarDB vs. OushuDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial 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	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

greenplum.org

www.jaguardb.com

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.oushu.com/documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Oushu

8Kdata

Initial release

2005

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2016

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

3.3 July 2023

4.0.1, August 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

C
C++

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

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

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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