DBMS > Greenplum vs. MaxDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. MaxDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza 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.

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

greenplum.org

maxdb.sap.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

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

SAP, formerly Sybase

Yanza

Initial release

2005

1984

1994

2015

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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