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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. jBASE vs. MaxDB vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. jBASE vs. MaxDB vs. Pinecone

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  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.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasemaxdb.sap.comwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9maxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperEnterpriseDBRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2005199119842019
Current release14, December 20215.77.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesString, Number, Boolean
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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