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System Properties Comparison OpenEdge vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

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

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

SAP

formerly Sybase

Mireo

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1984

1992

2020

1987

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

17, July 2015

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

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

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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