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System Properties Comparison OpenEdge vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sphinx vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

www.postgres-xl.org

sphinxsearch.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2001

2012

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

10 R1, October 2018

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

simple authentication-based access control

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