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DBMS > Greenplum vs. PostGIS vs. Splunk vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. PostGIS vs. Splunk vs. TempoIQ

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
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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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLAnalytics Platform for Big DataScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegreenplum.orgpostgis.netwww.splunk.comtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.Splunk Inc.TempoIQ
Initial release2005200520032012
Current release7.0.0, September 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 4.2yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesyesyesyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
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 integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users and rolessimple authentication-based access control

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