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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. H2 vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

www.h2database.com

www.progress.com/openedge

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

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

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

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2010

2005

1984

Current release

8.1, December 2018

2.2.220, July 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

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

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Source-replica replication

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

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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