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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. OpenEdge vs. PostGIS vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.progress.com/openedge

postgis.net

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

postgis.net/documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Altibase

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

1999

1984

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.4.2, February 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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

Users and groups

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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