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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenQM vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Application development environment with integrated database management system

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.progress.com/openedge

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Oracle

Initial release

2015

1984

1993

1980

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.4-12

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

Users and groups

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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