DBMS > OpenEdge vs. openGauss vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison OpenEdge vs. openGauss vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

realm.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

realm.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

Huawei and openGauss community

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2019

2014

2010

2018

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.0, March 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Journaling Streams

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Users and groups

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

Role-based access control

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