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System Properties Comparison MarkLogic vs. OushuDB vs. PostGIS vs. PostgreSQL vs. Sadas Engine

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NameMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningSpatial extension of PostgreSQLWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
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Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score636.25
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.progress.com/­marklogicwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBpostgis.netwww.postgresql.orgwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationwww.oushu.com/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentationwww.postgresql.org/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperMarkLogic Corp.OushuPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release200120051989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL2006
Current release11.0, December 20224.0.1, August 20203.4.2, February 202416.3, May 20248.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoBSDcommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL92Full-featured ANSI SQL supportyesyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyesuser defined functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hashhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yes, with Range Indexesnonoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsKerberos, SSL and role based accessyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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