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System Properties Comparison OpenEdge vs. openGemini vs. Snowflake vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.snowflake.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.opengemini.org/guide

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

Huawei and openGemini community

Snowflake Computing Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1984

2022

2014

2011

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

1.1, July 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

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

Administrators and common users accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Based on Windows Authentication

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