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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. IBM Db2 vs. OpenEdge vs. SQLite vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sqlite.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Mobiland AG

IBM

Progress Software Corporation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Rocket Software

Initial release

2018

1983

host version

1984

2000

1985

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

12.1, October 2016

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

optional

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

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Source-replica replication

none

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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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