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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. OpenEdge vs. STSdb vs. Vertica

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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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	9.62
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Progress Software Corporation

STS Soft SC

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2004

1984

2011

2005

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C#
Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

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

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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