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System Properties Comparison MongoDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sadas Engine vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	421.65
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mongodb.com

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

MongoDB, Inc

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Teradata

Initial release

2009

1984

2007

2006

2005

Current release

6.0.7, June 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

14.1, August 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

R packages

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Users and groups

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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