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DBMS > Oracle vs. PostGIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. PostgreSQL vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Oracle vs. PostGIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. PostgreSQL vs. YottaDB

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NameOracle  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
Relational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1244.08
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score636.25
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitewww.oracle.com/­databasepostgis.netwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.postgresql.orgyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­databasepostgis.net/­documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.postgresql.org/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperOraclePostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerYottaDB, LLC
Initial release198020052014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB1989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL2001
Current release23c, September 20233.4.2, February 202410 R1, October 201816.3, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CCCC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes infostandard with numerous extensionsby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possibleuser defined functionsuser defined functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioningpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocan be realized in PL/SQLnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedACIDACID infoMVCCACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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