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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP IQ

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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.

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.03
Rank	#107	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#251	Overall
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	4.51
Rank	#89	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/edb-docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/iq

Developer

EnterpriseDB

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1994

Current release

14, December 2021

10 R1, October 2018

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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