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DBMS > FatDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm vs. Sphinx

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Application development environment with integrated database management systemA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.progress.com/­openedgerealm.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestrealm.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperFatCloudProgress Software CorporationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2012198420142001
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC#C++
Server operating systemsWindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersyes infovia applicationsyesyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4noneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsUsers and groupsyesno

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