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System Properties Comparison Oracle vs. PostgreSQL

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Name

OracleX

PostgreSQLX

Description

Widely used RDBMS

Based on the object relational DBMS

Postgres

Database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score
Rank

Score
Rank

Trend Chart

1462.02
#1Overall
#1Relational DBMS

307.61
#5Overall
#4Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/us/products/database

www.postgresql.org

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database/database.html

www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals

Developer

Oracle

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Initial release

1980

1989

Current release

12 Release 1 (12.1.0.2), July 2014

9.5.2, March 2016

License

commercial

Open Source

Database as a Service
(DBaaS)

no

no

Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD

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Windows
z/OS

OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

yes

Typing

yes

yes

XML support

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

SQL

yes

yes

APIs and other access

methods

ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming
languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

PL/SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes

Partitioning methods

horizontal partitioning

no, but can be realized using table

inheritance

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Replication methods

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

Master-slave replication

MapReduce

no

no

Consistency concepts

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

yes

yes

Durability

yes

yes

In-memory capabilities

yes

no

User concepts

fine grained access rights according to SQLstandard

fine grained access rights according to SQLstandard

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Recent citations in the

news

Oracle OpenWorld 2016

San Francisco, California, USA, 18-22
October 2016
Oracle security update includes Java,
MySQL, Oracle Database fixes
20 April 2016, InfoWorld

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May 2016 Issue of Linux Journal

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PostgreSQL
25 April 2016, vc.ru
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