DBMS > Greenplum vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Stardog vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Stardog vs. Warp 10

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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.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

greenplum.org

www.kinetica.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.stardog.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

docs.kinetica.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.stardog.com

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Kinetica

Microsoft

Stardog-Union

SenX

Initial release

2005

2012

2014

2010

2015

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

7.1, August 2021

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

JavaScript

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

JavaScript

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

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.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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