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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Hazelcast vs. OpenEdge vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

altibase.com

hazelcast.com

www.progress.com/openedge

postgis.net

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Altibase

Hazelcast

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

1999

2008

1984

2005

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Users and groups

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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