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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Quasardb vs. RethinkDB vs. TimesTen vs. Transbase

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe 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, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.In-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comquasar.airethinkdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperEnterpriseDBquasardbThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20052009200919981987
Current release14, December 20213.14.1, January 20242.4.1, August 202011 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languagenoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noPL/SQLyes
TriggersyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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