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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. H2 vs. Sequoiadb

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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.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.18
Rank	#122	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#260	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.h2database.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Thomas Mueller

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2005

2013

Current release

14, December 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

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

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

Java

.Net
C++
Java
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.

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

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

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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