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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Hypertable vs. Interbase vs. RavenDB vs. SAP IQ

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  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 HadoopLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseravendb.netwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseravendb.net/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperEnterpriseDBHypertable Inc.EmbarcaderoHibernating RhinosSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20052009198420101994
Current release14, December 20210.9.8.11, March 2016InterBase 2020, December 20195.4, July 202216.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++CC#
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.no infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyesSQL-like query language (RQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesyes
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingnoneShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelInterbase Change ViewsMulti-source replicationSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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