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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Geode vs. PouchDB vs. TimesTen

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comgeode.apache.orgpouchdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsgeode.apache.org/­docspouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperEnterpriseDBOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Apache Software FoundationOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2005200220121998
Current release14, December 20211.1, February 20177.1.1, June 201911 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptPL/SQL
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definablenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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