DBMS > HugeGraph vs. OpenEdge vs. QuestDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. OpenEdge vs. QuestDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	0.15
Rank	#339	Overall
	#33	Graph DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#88	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#115	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	37.12
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.progress.com/openedge

questdb.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

questdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Baidu

Progress Software Corporation

QuestDB Technology Inc

SAP, Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2018

1984

2014

1987

2000

Current release

0.9

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

16.0

3.45.2 (12 March 2024), March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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