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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.progress.com/openedge

realm.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

realm.io/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Progress Software Corporation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2004

1984

2014

1998

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users and groups

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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