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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.progress.com/openedge

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

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Thomas Mueller

InterSystems

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2005

2018

1984

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2023.3, June 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users and groups

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