DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. Graphite vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Graphite vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP HANA

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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.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.86
Rank	#131	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#250	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Chris Davis

Percona

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

Initial release

2005

2006

2015

2009

2010

Current release

14, December 2021

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.2.0, December 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux

Linux
OS X

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Sockets

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

JavaScript

Erlang

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

locking

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.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

yes, using Riak Security

yes

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