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System Properties Comparison Databend vs. EDB Postgres vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

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.

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.34
Rank	#283	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.enterprisedb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Databend Labs

EnterpriseDB

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2021

2005

2012

1995

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

14, December 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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