DBMS > Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.55
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.progress.com/openedge

realm.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

realm.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SAP

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

1984

2014

2010

2013

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

SQLScript, R

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Users and groups

yes

simple password-based access control

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