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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. OpenEdge vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

www.progress.com/openedge

postgis.net

prometheus.io

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

postgis.net/documentation

prometheus.io/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2001

1984

2005

2015

2011

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.4.2, February 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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 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

Users and groups

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Based on Windows Authentication

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