DBMS > Greenplum vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenSearch vs. OrientDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenSearch vs. OrientDB vs. SpatiaLite

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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.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

greenplum.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

orientdb.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2005

2016

2021

2010

2008

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
Java
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

relationship in graphs

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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