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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenEdge vs. PostgreSQL

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	86.18
Rank	#16	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	4.50
Rank	#84	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	618.00
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database

www.progress.com/openedge

www.postgresql.org

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.postgresql.org/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Initial release

2010

1984

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

Current release

V12

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

14.5, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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