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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. EDB Postgres vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

The 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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.enterprisedb.com

www.h2database.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

EnterpriseDB

Thomas Mueller

IBM

Initial release

2015

2005

2014

Current release

14, December 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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