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

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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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

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	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/hana

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

SAP

informationpartners gmbh

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1984

2010

2015

2011

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
Java

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

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

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

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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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