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DBMS > Greenplum vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sphinx vs. TimesTen vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sphinx vs. TimesTen vs. Yanza

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitegreenplum.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgsphinxsearch.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlyanza.com
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Yanza
Initial release20052014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB200119982015
Current release7.0.0, September 202310 R1, October 20183.5.1, February 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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 4.2yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoPL/SQLno
Triggersyesyesnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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