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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database info

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
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Score	12.14
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	54.69
Rank	#19	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Website

pivotal.io/pivotal-greenplum

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

gpdb.docs.pivotal.io

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2005

2010

Current release

5.10.0, July 2018

2.0 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-slave replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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