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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. H2 vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Riak TS vs. YottaDB

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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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.h2database.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

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

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Thomas Mueller

Oracle

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2005

2011

2015

2001

Current release

14, December 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

24.1, May 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
OS X

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, limited

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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