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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP HANA vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Application development environment with integrated database management system

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#338	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/hana

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Progress Software Corporation

SAP

Ultipa

Initial release

2014

1984

2010

2019

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

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