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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. OpenEdge vs. PostGIS vs. VelocityDB

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgepostgis.netvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestpostgis.net/­documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperProgress Software CorporationVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2018198420052011
Current release0.10, February 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.4.2, February 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CC#
Server operating systemsserver-lessAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoclose to SQL 92yesno
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
TriggersnoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4yes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers and groupsyes infobased on PostgreSQLBased on Windows Authentication

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