DBMS > Altibase vs. OpenEdge vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. OpenEdge vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
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Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#362	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sqlite.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Altibase

Progress Software Corporation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transwarp

Initial release

1999

1984

2000

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

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