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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. EventStoreDB vs. Oracle vs. SAP HANA vs. Transbase

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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.

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Widely used RDBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.18
Rank	#122	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.eventstore.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

developers.eventstore.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/hana

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Event Store Limited

Oracle

SAP

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2005

2012

1980

2010

1987

Current release

14, December 2021

21.2, February 2021

23c, September 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
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.

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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