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System Properties Comparison OpenEdge vs. PostGIS vs. VelocityDB vs. YDB

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NameOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.progress.com/­openedgepostgis.netvelocitydb.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestpostgis.net/­documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuideydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperProgress Software CorporationVelocityDB IncYandex
Initial release1984200520112019
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.4.2, February 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NETLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
.NetRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).NetGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
TriggersyesyesCallbacks 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 PostgreSQLActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infobased on PostgreSQLBased on Windows AuthenticationAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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