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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Riak TS vs. Spark SQL vs. YTsaurus

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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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

greenplum.org

spark.apache.org/sql

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

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

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Yandex

Initial release

2005

2015

2014

2023

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

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

Java
Python
R
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

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

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

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 Control Lists

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