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System Properties Comparison OpenEdge vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

help.sap.com/hana

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

Tobias Oetiker

SAP

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1984

1999

2010

2015

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

1.8.0, 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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