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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. Heroic vs. JaguarDB vs. LokiJS vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Heroic vs. JaguarDB vs. LokiJS vs. Yaacomo

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed 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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.jaguardb.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperEnterpriseDBSpotifyDataJaguar, Inc.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20052014201520142009
Current release14, December 20213.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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