DBMS > Drizzle vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Vitess vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Vitess vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

vitess.io

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

vitess.io/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Progress Software Corporation

Sybase, SAP

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2008

1984

1993

2013

2012

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

15.0.2, December 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at shard level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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