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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. EDB Postgres vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. PieCloudDB

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.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.Serverless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.enterprisedb.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.openpie.com
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperDataStaxEnterpriseDBHyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationOpenPie
Initial release201120051974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release6.8, April 202014, December 202111.2, May 20222.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJavaCGoC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyes
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 available
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingMulti-source replicationIngres Replicatoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)noyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardtoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard
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Datastax EnterpriseEDB PostgresHyprcubdIngresPieCloudDB
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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