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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. KeyDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenTenBase vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. KeyDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenTenBase vs. Postgres-XL

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTenBase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQLBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#370  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­OpenTenBase/­OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org
www.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.keydb.devdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/­en
www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperEnterpriseDBEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.MicrosoftOpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent
Initial release2005201919922014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release14, December 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.5, January 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoBSD-3commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
LinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
Go
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Luayes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control and ACLno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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