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System Properties Comparison MarkLogic vs. MySQL vs. OpenEdge vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Widely used open source RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.15
Rank	#70	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#8	Search engines

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/marklogic

www.mysql.com

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

MarkLogic Corp.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Progress Software Corporation

SiteWhere

Initial release

2001

1995

1984

2010

Current release

11.0, December 2022

9.0.0, July 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

predefined scheme

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

SQL92

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users and groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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