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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Firebolt vs. MaxDB vs. OpenSearch vs. TimescaleDB

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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.

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.firebolt.io

maxdb.sap.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

docs.firebolt.io

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.timescale.com

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Amazon Web Services

Timescale

Initial release

2005

2020

1984

2021

2017

Current release

14, December 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

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

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Supported programming languages

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

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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