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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. Ingres vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Oracle Rdb

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Ingres vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  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.Well established RDBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmanticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingresmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperEnterpriseDBActian CorporationManticore SoftwareMicrosoftOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20051974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201720121984
Current release14, December 202111.2, May 20226.0, February 20237.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedHP Open VMS
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemaschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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.yesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationIngres ReplicatorSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesoptimistic lockingyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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