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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. EventStoreDB vs. EXASOL vs. Hive vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. EventStoreDB vs. EXASOL vs. Hive vs. IRONdb

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent StoreRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.eventstore.comwww.exasol.comhive.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcescwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperEnterpriseDBEvent Store LimitedExasolApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookCirconus LLC.
Initial release20052012200020122017
Current release14, December 202121.2, February 20213.1.3, April 2022V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Lua
Python
R
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in Lua
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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