Empress Embedded Database vs. Progress OpenEdge

Openedge is very well suited for financial based applications for 2 reasons. First, it has very powerful transaction scoping that will commit or back out of all changes in a transaction at once. This ensure that your data is "in sync." Second, it offers after imaging roll forward and replication for environments that require high availability or powerful disaster recovery in place.

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• Openedge databases are practically bulletproof, even when shot down abnormally. The offer complete transaction scoping, before imagining, and also after imaging for roll foward capability.
• Openedge has a very powerful and easy to learn 4GL programming language that can be used in a traditional or object oriented manner.
• Openedge also has powerful web services components, fully integrating both SOAP and RESTful web services.
• Openedge is completely scaleable from 1 user to a fully distributed global enterprise solution.

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• Lack of multi-threading capability has been a complaint among other developers here.

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This language used since 1980

The decision to use openedge with our particular product was made such a long time ago that I certainly was not around to make the decision. And most of the other products that would have been compared at the time are likely no longer around. Which does speak to the longevity and benefits of this product. When you look back and see how long the same product has been going forward with constant improvements and remaining relevant without major disruptive changes, it is worthy of some credit.

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• The speed of development and ease of learning has had a positive impact on ROI
• The cost of use has had a negative one. In this era of free tools everywhere, paying for a product is a challenge to accept.

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