DBMS > OpenEdge vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison OpenEdge vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

spark.apache.org/sql

trafodion.apache.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/hana

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1984

2010

2014

2012

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended 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

Scala

C++, Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Java
Python
R
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

yes, via HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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 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

yes

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