DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. EsgynDB vs. Interbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. EsgynDB vs. Interbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiteWhere

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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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Esgyn

Embarcadero

SiteWhere

Initial release

2005

2015

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2010

Current release

14, December 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Interbase Change Views

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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