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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Infobright vs. OrientDB vs. Splice Machine vs. TypeDB

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  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.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdborientdb.orgsplicemachine.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-workstypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperEnterpriseDBIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSplice MachineVaticle
Initial release20052005201020142016
Current release14, December 20213.2.29, March 20243.1, March 20212.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query language, no joinsyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
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#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noJava, Javascriptyes infoJavano
TriggersyesnoHooksyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenoneShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes inforelationship in graphsyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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EDB PostgresInfobrightOrientDBSplice MachineTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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