DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Riak TS vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Riak TS vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP HANA

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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.

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.18
Rank	#122	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	2.96
Rank	#103	Overall
	#18	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sadasengine.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Oracle

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

SAP

Initial release

2005

2011

2015

2006

2010

Current release

14, December 2021

23.3, December 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

8.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

Erlang

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

selectable replication factor

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

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

off heap cache

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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