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System Properties Comparison PostgreSQL vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS info

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

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

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	491.07
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#269	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Website

www.postgresql.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

PostgreSQL Global Development Group info

www.postgresql.org/developer

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

1999

Current release

12.0, October 2019

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
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

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

ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java info

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions info

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-slave replication info

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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DB-Engines blog posts

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A Look at Valentina
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