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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. Galaxybase vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

duckdb.org

www.enterprisedb.com

galaxybase.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2018

2005

2017

2020

Current release

0.10, February 2024

14, December 2021

Nov 20, November 2021

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

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

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

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

Go
Java
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source 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

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Role-based access control

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