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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. OpenEdge vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.39
Rank	#154	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.56
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#326	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.progress.com/openedge

terminusdb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Progress Software Corporation

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1991

1984

2018

2011

Current release

5.7

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

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 journaling

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and groups

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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