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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.32
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	19.96
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Actian Corporation

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2005

Current release

12.0, July 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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Recent citations in the news

Actian Launches Ingres 12.0 Database
4 June 2024, PR Newswire

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25 May 2021, Business Wire

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13 June 2023, DevClass

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