DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. HugeGraph vs. Kingbase vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. HugeGraph vs. Kingbase vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

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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.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.kingbase.com.cn

sql.js.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Baidu

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2005

2018

1999

2012

2000

Current release

14, December 2021

0.9

V8.0, August 2021

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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