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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GridDB vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

griddb.net

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Toshiba Corporation

Progress Software Corporation

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

1984

1994

Current release

15585

5.1, August 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

SQL-like query language

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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