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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. TypeDB

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb 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.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series 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.
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
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/typedb.com
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.harperdb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperEnterpriseDBHarperDBSpotifyCirconus LLC.Vaticle
Initial release20052017201420172016
Current release14, December 20213.1, August 2021V0.10.20, January 20182.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCNode.jsJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like data manipulation statementsnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP APIgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Custom Functions infosince release 3.1noyes, in Luano
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesnoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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EDB PostgresHarperDBHeroicIRONdbTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
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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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