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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenEdge vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.progress.com/openedge

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2010

1984

2018

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

V12

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

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

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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 journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

Role-based access control

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