DBMS > OpenEdge vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison OpenEdge vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splice Machine

Initial release

1984

2010

1992

2014

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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