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System Properties Comparison OpenEdge vs. Postgres-XL vs. Splunk vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

www.postgres-xl.org

www.splunk.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

Splunk Inc.

Rocket Software

Initial release

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2003

1985

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud 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
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

HTTP REST

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

configurable

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

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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