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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#89	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	30.90
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

postgis.net

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

1984

2005

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.3.2, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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