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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. MaxDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

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

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

maxdb.sap.com

www.postgres-xl.org

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Actian Corporation

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

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

Current release

11.2, May 2022

7.9.10.12, February 2024

10 R1, October 2018

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

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

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

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