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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. EsgynDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. EsgynDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd 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.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionServerless Time Series DBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.46
Rank#121  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#311  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#259  Overall
#41  Document stores
Score30.39
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.esgyn.cnhyprcubd.com (offline)github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-db
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-db
DeveloperEnterpriseDBEsgynHyprcubd, Inc.Microsoft
Initial release2005201520142014
Current release14, December 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageCC++, JavaGoJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringnoyes infoJSON types
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by default
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (https)JavaScript APIDocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Java Stored ProceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptJavaScript
TriggersyesnonoyesJavaScript
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyeswith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardtoken accessnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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