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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Infobright vs. IRONdb

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.84
Rank	#119	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.62
Rank	#170	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#349	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

2005

2017

Current release

14, December 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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