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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. OpenEdge vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	2.69
Rank	#101	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

cloud.google.com/spanner

www.progress.com/openedge

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2004

2017

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

ACID

MVCC

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

yes

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

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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