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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP IQ

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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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	9.23
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

greenplum.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

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

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Microsoft

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2005

1989

1994

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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