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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. FatDB vs. OpenEdge vs. TerminusDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.progress.com/openedge

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FatCloud

Progress Software Corporation

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1997

2012

1984

2018

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

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

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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 journaling

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users and groups

Role-based access control

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