DBMS > etcd vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenSearch vs. Sadas Engine vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenSearch vs. Sadas Engine vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

A distributed reliable key-value store

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sadasengine.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

opensearch.org/docs/latest

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

Amazon Web Services

SADAS s.r.l.

Rocket Software

Initial release

1984

2021

2006

1985

Current release

3.4, August 2019

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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