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System Properties Comparison OpenEdge vs. PostgreSQL vs. ReductStore vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

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Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	636.25
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

www.postgresql.org

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.postgresql.org/docs

www.reduct.store/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

ReductStore LLC

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1984

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2023

2015

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

16.3, May 2024

1.9, March 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Rust

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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