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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. MonetDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#329	Overall
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Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.monetdb.org

www.progress.com/openedge

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Esgyn

MonetDB BV

Progress Software Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2004

1984

2014

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

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

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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 capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

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

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