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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. OpenEdge vs. PieCloudDB vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Relational DBMS

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Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.progress.com/openedge

www.openpie.com

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

IBM

Progress Software Corporation

OpenPie

Initial release

1983

host version

1984

2005

Current release

12.1, October 2016

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.1, January 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

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

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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