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System Properties Comparison OpenEdge vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
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Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sqlite.org

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

1984

2000

2022

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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, based on authentication and database rules

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