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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. OpenEdge vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#107	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	3.75
Rank	#88	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/google/leveldb

www.progress.com/openedge

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Spotify

Google

Progress Software Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2014

2011

1984

2013

1993

Current release

1.23, February 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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