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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. EDB Postgres vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EDB Postgres vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. SWC-DB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Serverless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.enterprisedb.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffEnterpriseDBHyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationAlex Kashirin
Initial release201420051974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2020
Current release14, December 202111.2, May 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCGoCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyesno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)noyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardtoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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