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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenEdge vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerminusDB

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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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.progress.com/openedge

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Alessandro Furieri

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2010

1984

2008

2018

Current release

V12

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

5.0.0, August 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

GPL V3

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++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

none

Journaling Streams

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 journaling

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

Role-based access control

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