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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. HyperSQL vs. JaguarDB vs. Quasardb vs. Transbase

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#14  Vector DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comhsqldb.orgwww.jaguardb.comquasar.aiwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperEnterpriseDBDataJaguar, Inc.quasardbTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20052001201520091987
Current release14, December 20212.7.2, June 20233.3 July 20233.14.1, January 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Java, SQLnonoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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