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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Graphite vs. Lovefield vs. TypeDB vs. Yanza

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is 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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query languageTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldtypedb.comyanza.com
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperEnterpriseDBChris DavisGoogleVaticleYanza
Initial release20052006201420162015
Current release14, December 20212.1.12, February 20172.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageCPythonJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Unix
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Sockets
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptAll JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nononono
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenonenoneSharding infoby using Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeperno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship featureno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progressno
More information provided by the system vendor
EDB PostgresGraphiteLovefieldTypeDB infoformerly named GraknYanza
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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