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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. jBASE vs. mSQL vs. OpenEdge

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

FatCloud

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Hughes Technologies

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2012

1991

1994

1984

Current release

5.7

4.4, October 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and groups

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