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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. OpenEdge vs. PostGIS vs. SQL.JS

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpatial extension of PostgreSQLPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.progress.com/­openedgepostgis.netsql.js.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestpostgis.net/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAltibaseProgress Software CorporationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release1999198420052012
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++CJavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infoclose to SQL 92yesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4yes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groupsyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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