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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Prometheus vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.progress.com/openedge

prometheus.io

realm.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

prometheus.io/docs

realm.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Progress Software Corporation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SAP

Initial release

2015

1984

2015

2014

2010

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Users and groups

yes

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