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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Esgyn

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2005

2015

2016

2013

Current release

14, December 2021

5.10, January 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

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