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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. PouchDB vs. Transbase vs. Transwarp Hippo

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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.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#14	Vector DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

pouchdb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2005

2012

1987

2023

Current release

14, December 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

via views

yes

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 REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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