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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. GeoSpock vs. Snowflake vs. Yanza

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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.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.86
Rank	#131	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

geospock.com

www.snowflake.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

EnterpriseDB

GeoSpock

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2005

2014

2015

Current release

14, December 2021

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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

temporal, categorical

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Automatic sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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