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System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Newts vs. OpenEdge vs. PostGIS

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NameKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.kingbase.com.cnopennms.github.io/­newtswww.progress.com/­openedgepostgis.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.OpenNMS GroupProgress Software Corporation
Initial release1999201419842005
Current releaseV8.0, August 2021OpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infoclose to SQL 92yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
HTTP REST
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4yes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers and groupsyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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