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System Properties Comparison Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. MaxDB vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#285	Overall
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

www.postgresql.fastware.com

Technical documentation

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

typedb.com/docs

Developer

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Vaticle

Initial release

1984

2012

2000

2016

Current release

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

7.9.10.12, February 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

partitioning by range, list and by hash

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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