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System Properties Comparison OpenEdge vs. OrientDB vs. RocksDB vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

orientdb.org

rocksdb.org

vitess.io

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Facebook, Inc.

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

1984

2010

2013

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.2.29, March 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, Javascript

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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