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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Oracle

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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, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS info

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store info

with Oracle Spatial and Graph

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Score	2.39
Rank	#113	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1369.36
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/edb-docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Oracle

Initial release

2005

1980

Current release

V10, November 2017

19c, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial info

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions info

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

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning info

by hash, list or range

horizontal partitioning info

with the optional Oracle Partitioning

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts info

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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