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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.46
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	2.71
Rank	#91	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	3.12
Rank	#81	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

orientdb.org

questdb.io

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

questdb.io/docs

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

QuestDB Technology Inc

Initial release

1984

2010

2014

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

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

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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