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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SiteWhere vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Application development environment with integrated database management system

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
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	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SiteWhere

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

1984

2010

2011

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

7.4.1.1, 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C++

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Users and groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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