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System Properties Comparison OpenEdge vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus vs. SAP HANA vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

postgis.net

prometheus.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

postgis.net/documentation

prometheus.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

SAP

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1984

2005

2015

2010

2011

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.4.2, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

by Federation

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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