DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. OpenEdge vs. Snowflake vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. OpenEdge vs. Snowflake vs. Solr

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

www.esgyn.cn

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.progress.com/openedge

www.snowflake.com

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Esgyn

Google

Progress Software Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

1984

2014

2006

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users and groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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