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System Properties Comparison OpenEdge vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. ScyllaDB vs. SingleStore vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Key-value store

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.scylladb.com

www.singlestore.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.scylladb.com

docs.singlestore.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

SAP, Sybase

ScyllaDB

SingleStore Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1984

1987

2015

2013

2000

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

16.0

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

8.5, January 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

yes, Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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