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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. searchxml

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score7.57
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.h2database.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperEnterpriseDBThomas MuellerMicrosoftinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2005200520152015
Current release14, December 20212.2.220, July 2023V11.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageCJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnoyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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