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System Properties Comparison OpenEdge vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool vs. VelocityDB

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NameOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.progress.com/­openedgepostgis.netprometheus.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestpostgis.net/­documentationprometheus.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperProgress Software CorporationTobias OetikerVelocityDB Inc
Initial release19842005201519992011
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.4.2, February 20241.8.0, 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCGoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyNumeric data onlyyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyesno infoImport of XML data possibleno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIin-process shared library
Pipes
.Net
Supported programming languagesProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonono
TriggersyesyesnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4yes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonoBased on Windows Authentication

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