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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Faircom DB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	EDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparison	Faircom DB formerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparison	Postgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.	Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.	Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Key-value store Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models	Document store Spatial DBMS		Document store Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.91 Rank #130   Overall #60   Relational DBMS	Score 0.29 Rank #304   Overall #43   Key-value stores #136   Relational DBMS	Score 0.53 Rank #254   Overall #117   Relational DBMS
Website	www.enterprisedb.com	www.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-db	www.postgres-xl.org	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	www.enterprisedb.com/­docs	docs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html	www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
Developer	EnterpriseDB	FairCom Corporation		Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2005	1979	2014 since 2012, originally named StormDB	1993
Current release	14, December 2021	V12, November 2020	10 R1, October 2018
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial BSD for PostgreSQL-components	commercial Restricted, free version available	Open Source Mozilla public license	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C	ANSI C, C++	C
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	AIX FreeBSD HP-UX Linux NetBSD OS X QNX SCO Solaris VxWorks Windows easily portable to other OSs	Linux macOS	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures	yes	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.	no	yes XML type, but no XML query functionality	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes standard with numerous extensions	yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions	yes distributed, parallel query execution	yes
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET JDBC native C library ODBC streaming API for large objects	ADO.NET Direct SQL JDBC JPA ODBC RESTful HTTP/JSON API RESTful MQTT/JSON API RPC	ADO.NET JDBC native C library ODBC streaming API for large objects	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	.Net C C++ Delphi Java Perl PHP Python Tcl	.Net C C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js and browser) PHP Python Visual Basic	.Net C C++ Delphi Erlang Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Tcl	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	user defined functions realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.	yes .Net, JavaScript, C/C++	user defined functions	yes
Triggers	yes	yes	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	horizontal partitioning by hash, list or range	File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding Customizable business rules for table partitioning	horizontal partitioning	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication	yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).		Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent	ACID MVCC	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	EDB Postgres	Faircom DB formerly c-treeACE	Postgres-XL	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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