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Name

Description

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Widely used open source RDBMS info

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

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS info

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

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.62
Rank	#203	Overall
	#30	Document stores

Score	527.00
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Website

www.percona.com/software/mongo-database/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.postgresql.org

Technical documentation

www.percona.com/doc/percona-server-for-mongodb/LATEST/index.html

www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals

Developer

Percona

PostgreSQL Global Development Group info

www.postgresql.org/developer

Initial release

2015

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

12.3, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

GPL Version 2

Open Source info

BSD

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Data scheme

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON

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

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java info

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

JavaScript

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

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-slave replication

Master-slave replication info

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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