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

Postgres Database model Relational DBMS Relational DBMS DB-Engines Ranking

Trend Chart

Score 1462.02Rank #1 Overall

#1 Relational DBMS

Score 307.61Rank #5 Overall

#4 Relational DBMSWebsite www.oracle.com/ ­us/­products/ ­database www.postgresql.orgTechnical documentation docs.oracle.com/ ­en/­database/ ­database.html www.postgresql.org/ ­docs/ ­manualsDeveloper Oracle PostgreSQL Global Development Group Initial release 1980 1989 Current release 12 Release 1 (12.1.0.2), July 2014 9.5.2, March 2016License commercial Open Source Database as a Service (DBaaS)

no no

Implementation language C and C++ CServer operating systems AIX

HP-UXLinuxOS XSolaris

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Oracle vs. PostgreSQL Comparison

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Windowsz/OS

OS XSolarisUnixWindows

Data scheme yes yesTyping yes yesXML support yesSecondary indexes yes yesSQL yes yes APIs and other access methods

ODP.NETOracle Call Interface (OCI)JDBCODBC

native C librarystreaming API for large objectsADO.NETJDBCODBC

Supported programming languages

CC#C++ClojureCobolEiffelErlangFortranGroovyHaskellJavaJavaScriptLispObjective COCamlPerlPHPPythonRRubyScalaTclVisual Basic

.NetCC++Java PerlPythonTcl

Server-side scripts PL/SQL user defined functions Triggers yes yesPartitioning methods horizontal partitioning no, but can be realized using table

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Oracle vs. PostgreSQL Comparison

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Replication methods Master-master replicationMaster-slave replication

Master-slave replication

MapReduce no noConsistency concepts Immediate Consistency Immediate ConsistencyForeign keys yes yesTransaction concepts ACID ACIDConcurrency yes yesDurability yes yesIn-memory capabilities yes noUser concepts fine grained access rights according to SQL-

standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Oracle PostgreSQLDB-Engines blog posts MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the

winners of the March ranking2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger

Oracle is the DBMS of the Year5 January 2016, Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann

The openCypher Project: Help Shape the SQL for Graphs22 December 2015, Emil Eifrem (guest author)

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger

Big gains for Relational Database Management Systems in DB-Engines Ranking2 February 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

MongoDB and PostgreSQL struggle for the lead of the chasing group in the popularity ranking

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Conferences and events

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Oracle OpenWorld 2016San Francisco, California, USA, 18-22 October 2016

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