DBMS > Greenplum vs. MaxDB vs. Riak TS vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. MaxDB vs. Riak TS vs. Transwarp StellarDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

greenplum.org

maxdb.sap.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Transwarp

Initial release

2005

1984

2015

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

1. Introducing the Greenplum Database - Data Warehousing with Greenplum [Book]
6 December 2018, O'Reilly Media

VMware Greenplum on AWS: Parallel Postgres for Enterprise Analytics at Scale | Amazon Web Services
9 September 2019, AWS Blog

RSA: EMC integrates Hadoop with Greenplum database
26 February 2013, DatacenterDynamics

Greenplum 6 ventures outside the analytic box | ZDNET
19 March 2019, ZDNet

Greenplum 6 review: Jack of all trades, master of some
7 November 2019, InfoWorld

provided by Google News

SAP Content Server High Availability using Amazon EFS and SUSE | Amazon Web Services
30 December 2020, AWS Blog

Extended Maintenance Commitments Across SAP Solutions
11 August 2020, SAP News

What is SAP S/4HANA?
21 March 2022, TechTarget

Alibaba Cloud Offers Access to SAP Software for Customers
5 June 2018, Alizila

Dear SAP, Why Don't You Make Hana A Success?
28 July 2021, E3-Magazin

provided by Google News

Share this page