DBMS > jBASE vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.progress.com/openedge

realm.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

realm.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Progress Software Corporation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SAP

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1991

1984

2014

2010

2012

Current release

5.7

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and groups

yes

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