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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Kdb vs. PostgreSQL vs. Warp 10 vs. YDB

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSHigh performance Time Series DBMSWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBaseA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Time Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score645.54
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#349  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreskx.comwww.postgresql.orgwww.warp10.iogithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingrescode.kx.comwww.postgresql.org/­docswww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_startedydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperActian CorporationKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerSenXYandex
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20031989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL20152019
Current release11.2, May 20223.6, May 201816.3, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCqCJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (q)yes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infoWarpScriptno
Triggersyesyes infowith viewsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyhorizontal partitioningpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hashSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizationsAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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