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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

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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.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

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

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2005

1984

2009

2011

Current release

14, December 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

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