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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. FatDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. OpenEdge

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

FatCloud

IBM

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2015

2012

1983

host version

1984

Current release

12.1, October 2016

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

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