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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. Hypertable vs. Ignite vs. SpaceTime vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Hypertable vs. Ignite vs. SpaceTime vs. XTDB

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 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.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comignite.apache.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsapacheignite.readme.io/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperEnterpriseDBHypertable Inc.Apache Software FoundationMireoJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20052009201520202019
Current release14, December 20210.9.8.11, March 2016Apache Ignite 2.61.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++, Java, .NetC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes, 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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedlimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Thrift
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nono
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelyes (replicated cache)Real-time block device replication (DRBD)yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes

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