DBMS > Greenplum vs. Snowflake vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Snowflake vs. VictoriaMetrics 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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

VictoriaMetrics

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2005

2014

2018

2001

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous replication

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

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 with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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