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System Properties Comparison OpenEdge vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Realm vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

realm.io

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

realm.io/docs

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

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2014

2013

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

simple password-based access control

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