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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. Heroic vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP IQ vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Heroic vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP IQ vs. XTDB

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedDocument store
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
#158  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.sadasengine.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperEnterpriseDBSpotifySADAS s.r.l.SAP, formerly SybaseJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20052014200619942019
Current release14, December 20218.016.1 SPS04, April 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyesyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
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
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardinghorizontal partitioningshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnoneSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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