DBMS > MonetDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

www.progress.com/openedge

realm.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

realm.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.sqream.com

Developer

MonetDB BV

Progress Software Corporation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SAP

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2004

1984

2014

2010

2017

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

SQLScript, R

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

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.

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

yes

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