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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OrigoDB 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.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	7.71
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

greenplum.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

origodb.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2005

2010

2009

under the name LiveDB

2018

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

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