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DBMS > Greenplum vs. MySQL vs. Riak TS vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. MySQL vs. Riak TS vs. SurrealDB

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Widely used open source RDBMSRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APITime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1061.34
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitegreenplum.orgwww.mysql.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgdev.mysql.com/­docwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.Oracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2005199520152022
Current release7.0.0, September 20238.4.0, April 20243.0.0, September 2022v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++ErlangRust
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infosince Version 4.2yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes, limitedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoproprietary syntaxErlang
Triggersyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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