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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#124	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	941.20
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#206	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/edb-docs

docs.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Microsoft

Initial release

2005

1989

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

14, December 2021

SQL Server 2019, November 2019

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

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++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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Specific characteristics

PostgreSQL with added Security, Performance, DBA, Developer, and Oracle compatibile...
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Competitive advantages

Complete Postgres platform with enterprise-class Postgres, Management, Integration,...
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Typical application scenarios

New applications for transactional, reporting and mixed workloads that need to integrate...
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Key customers

MasterCard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Ericsson, AT&T, Alibaba, Korea Telecom and...
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Market metrics

Listed in Gartner Magic Quadrant 2013-2018 with over 4,000 customers.
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source and Commercial core based licensing.
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