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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. ObjectBox vs. YugabyteDB

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#377  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#108  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.objectbox.iodocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperEnterpriseDBCommunity supported by Red HatObjectBox LimitedYugabyte Inc.
Initial release2005201420172017
Current release14, December 20214.0 (May 2024)2.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnonoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP RESTProprietary native APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding infobased on CassandranoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesyes
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EDB PostgresHawkular MetricsObjectBoxYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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