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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. JSqlDb vs. MySQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Konrad von Backstrom

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2005

2018

1995

2011

2014

Current release

14, December 2021

0.8, December 2018

8.4.0, April 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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