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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTSDB vs. YDB

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
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	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

opentsdb.net

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Esgyn

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Yandex

Initial release

2005

2015

1989

2011

2019

Current release

14, December 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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