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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. SAP HANA

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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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

EnterpriseDB

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2005

2010

2015

2010

Current release

14, December 2021

3.3 July 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

yes

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