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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Google BigQuery vs. OpenEdge vs. Prometheus vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#49	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.progress.com/openedge

prometheus.io

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

prometheus.io/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Progress Software Corporation

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2004

2010

1984

2015

2018

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users and groups

Role-based access control

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