DBMS > Greenplum vs. Postgres-XL vs. Rockset vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Postgres-XL vs. Rockset vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

greenplum.org

www.postgres-xl.org

rockset.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Rockset

Yanza

Initial release

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2019

2015

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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