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

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NameOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Graph 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
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.progress.com/­openedgepostgis.netprometheus.iosurrealdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestpostgis.net/­documentationprometheus.io/­docssurrealdb.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperProgress Software CorporationSurrealDB LtdVelocityDB Inc
Initial release19842005201520222011
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.4.2, February 2024v1.5.0, May 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCGoRustC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
.Net
Supported programming languagesProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
TriggersyesyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4yes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesBased on Windows Authentication

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