DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. Google BigQuery vs. OrientDB vs. Quasardb vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Google BigQuery vs. OrientDB vs. Quasardb vs. Transbase

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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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

orientdb.org

quasar.ai

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Google

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

quasardb

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2005

2010

2009

1987

Current release

14, December 2021

3.2.29, March 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

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

in JavaScript

Java, Javascript

yes

Triggers

yes

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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