DBMS > Infobright vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. XTDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Application development environment with integrated database management system

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

SAP

formerly Sybase

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2005

1984

1992

2019

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

17, July 2015

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes, each node contains all data

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

What's New in OpenEdge 12.8
15 April 2024, release.nl

Learning to failover
3 April 2017, SDTimes.com

4 sources of latency and how to avoid them
1 November 2017, InfoWorld

provided by Google News

SAP Products & Services Data Portfolio
2 July 2021, Datamation

Securing SAP with AWS Network Firewall: Part 2 – Managed Rules
17 July 2023, AWS Blog

SAP vulnerabilities Let Attacker Inject OS Commands—Patch Now!
11 July 2023, CybersecurityNews

MindsDB is now the leading and fastest growing applied ML platform in the world
3 November 2022, PR Newswire

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
9 December 2020, CRN

provided by Google News

Share this page