DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Postgres-XL vs. PostgreSQL vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Postgres-XL vs. PostgreSQL vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	636.25
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.esgyn.cn

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.postgres-xl.org

www.postgresql.org

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.postgresql.org/docs

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Esgyn

Kyligence, Inc.

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2015

2016

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2001

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

16.3, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

standard with numerous extensions

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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