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Name Oracle X PostgreSQL X
Based on the object
Description Widely used RDBMS relational DBMS Postgres

Database model Relational DBMS Relational DBMS

DB- Score 1404.40 Score 330.02
Engines
Rank #1 Overall Rank #4 Overall
Ranking
Trend Relational Relational
#1 #4
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Website www.oracle.com/database www.postgresql.org
Technical docs.oracle.com/en/- www.postgresql.org/docs/-
documentation database/database.html manuals
PostgreSQL Global
Developer Oracle
Development Group
Initial release 1980 1989
12 Release 1 (12.1.0.2),
Current release 9.6.1, October 2016
July 2014
License commercial Open Source
Cloud-based no no
Implementation
C and C++ C
language
FreeBSD
AIX HP-UX
HP-UX Linux
Linux NetBSD
Server operating
OS X OpenBSD
systems
Solaris OS X
Windows Solaris
z/OS Unix
Windows
Data scheme yes yes
Typing yes yes
XML support yes
Secondary indexes yes yes
SQL yes yes
native C library
ODP.NET
streaming API for large
Oracle Call Interface
APIs and other objects
(OCI)
access methods ADO.NET
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran .Net
Groovy C
Haskell C++
Supported
Java Delphi
programming
JavaScript Java
languages
Lisp Perl
Objective C Python
OCaml Tcl
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts
PL/SQL user defined functions
Triggers yes yes
Partitioning methods no, but can be realized
horizontal partitioning
using table inheritance
Replication methods Master-master replication
Master-slave replication
Master-slave replication
MapReduce no no
Consistency
Immediate Consistency Immediate Consistency
concepts
Foreign keys yes yes
Transaction concepts ACID ACID
Concurrency yes yes
Durability yes yes
In-memory
yes no
capabilities
fine grained access rights fine grained access rights
User concepts
according to SQL-standard according to SQL-standard