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

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

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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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.18
Rank	#122	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	29.85
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#109	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Esgyn

Microsoft

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2005

2015

2014

2019

Current release

14, December 2021

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

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

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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