DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. searchxml vs. SWC-DB vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. searchxml vs. SWC-DB vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yanza

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

EnterpriseDB

informationpartners gmbh

Alex Kashirin

Teradata

Yanza

Initial release

2005

2015

2020

2005

2015

Current release

14, December 2021

1.0

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

schema-free

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

yes

on the application server

R packages

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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