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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. OpenEdge vs. PostGIS

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score3.75
Rank#88  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.progress.com/­openedgepostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperCognitectProgress Software Corporation
Initial release201219842005
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoclose to SQL 92yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyesuser defined functions
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4yes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers and groupsyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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