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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. JaguarDB

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe 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.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
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Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperEnterpriseDBGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBMInterSystemsDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release200520121983 infohost version20182015
Current release14, December 202112.1, October 20162023.3, June 20233.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyesyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.limited functionality with using 'rules'yesyesno
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesrights management via user accounts
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