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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceApplication development environment with integrated database management systemThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlsphinxsearch.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.Progress Software CorporationSAP, SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.Transwarp
Initial release2002198419872001
Current release4.0OpenEdge 12.2, March 202016.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesno
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoclose to SQL 92yesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJava and Transact-SQLno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4horizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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