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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenQM vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Application development environment with integrated database management system

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

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Rank	#147	Overall
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Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

www.progress.com/openedge

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Progress Software Corporation

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2002

1984

1993

1992

Current release

1.1, February 2017

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.4-12

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

Users and groups

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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