DBMS > Greenplum vs. OpenMLDB vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. OpenMLDB vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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.

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

greenplum.org

openmldb.ai

www.snowflake.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

4 Paradigm Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Rocket Software

Initial release

2005

2020

2014

2020

1985

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

2024-2 February 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

configurable

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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