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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Riak TS vs. SQream DB vs. YottaDB

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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.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

greenplum.org

sqream.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.sqream.com

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SQream Technologies

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2005

2015

2017

2001

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

yes

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

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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 and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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