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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. GeoSpock vs. HarperDB vs. Memcached vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comgeospock.comwww.harperdb.iowww.memcached.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.harperdb.io/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperEnterpriseDBGeoSpockHarperDBDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalRocket Software
Initial release2005201720031985
Current release14, December 20212.0, September 20193.1, August 20211.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJava, JavascriptNode.jsCC
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesdynamic schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON data typesnooptional
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.nono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like data manipulation statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Proprietary protocolJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noCustom Functions infosince release 3.1noyes
Triggersyesnononoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeAutomatic shardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDBnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users and rolesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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