DBMS > Ingres vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Actian Corporation

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

SAP

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1984

2007

2010

Current release

11.2, May 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

14.1, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

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