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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. EJDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. EJDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MonetDB

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe 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.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperEnterpriseDBSoftmotionsMicrosoftMonetDB BV
Initial release2005201220152004
Current release14, December 2021V1Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageCCC
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
server-lesshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
in-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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