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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Typesense

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Application development environment with integrated database management system

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	32.67
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#209	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

typesense.org

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Progress Software Corporation

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2008

1984

1987

2015

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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 object

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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