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System Properties Comparison OpenEdge vs. Oracle vs. Splice Machine 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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used RDBMS

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

Splice Machine

Teradata

Initial release

1984

1980

2014

2005

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

23c, September 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

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

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Java

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

can be realized in PL/SQL

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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