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System Properties Comparison Netezza vs. PostgreSQL vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Description

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Widely used open source RDBMS info

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS info

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	18.43
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	542.40
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#341	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.postgresql.org

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals

Developer

IBM

PostgreSQL Global Development Group info

www.postgresql.org/developer

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2000

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2009

Current release

13.0, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux

included in appliance

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java info

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions info

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication info

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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DB-Engines blog posts

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Conferences and events

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PostgreSQL Online Trainings
Online Training Courses, 4 May 2020 - 11 December 2020

Recent citations in the news

IBM Brings Back a Netezza, Attacks Yellowbrick
29 June 2020, Datanami

Netezza’s Not Dead: It’s Just Ascended
25 June 2020, Computer Business Review

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12 October 2020, AiThority

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22 October 2020, PRNewswire

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28 October 2020, PRnews Leader

PostgreSQL 13 advances popular open source database
1 October 2020, TechTarget

RDBMS Software Market to Witness Robust Growth | Microsoft,Oracle,PostgreSQL Global Development Group,SQLite,IBM,SolarWinds IT Operations Management
28 October 2020, TechnoWeekly

EDB Completes Acquisition of 2ndQuadrant; Becomes Largest Dedicated Provider of PostgreSQL Products and Solutions Worldwide
30 September 2020, Business Wire

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