Oracle Berkeley DB vs Progress OpenEdge RDBMS comparison

Oracle and Progress Software are both solutions in the Embedded Database category. Oracle is ranked #7 with an average rating of 7.0, while Progress Software is ranked #8. Oracle holds a 4.3% mindshare in EDS, compared to Progress Software’s 3.4% mindshare. Additionally, 66% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Progress Software users who would recommend it.

Oracle Berkeley DB

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

Progress OpenEdge RDBMS and Oracle Berkeley DB are competing in the database management system field. Progress OpenEdge RDBMS is favorable in pricing and support, whereas Oracle Berkeley DB excels in features.

Features: Progress OpenEdge RDBMS is known for robustness, scalability, and enterprise-level application support. Oracle Berkeley DB features advanced key-value data storage, efficient complex data relationship management, and enhanced flexibility.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Progress OpenEdge RDBMS offers straightforward deployment and extensive customer service, making integration into existing systems simpler. Oracle Berkeley DB requires a more complex setup but provides detailed technical support.

Pricing and ROI: Progress OpenEdge RDBMS presents attractive initial pricing with favorable ROI due to ease of implementation and low maintenance costs. Oracle Berkeley DB may have a higher initial cost but offers long-term benefits with advanced features leading to higher overall ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Progress OpenEdge RDBMS Report (Updated: June 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Berkeley DB

Ranking in Embedded Database

7th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Non-Relational Databases (1st)

Progress OpenEdge RDBMS

Ranking in Embedded Database

8th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Embedded Database category, the mindshare of Oracle Berkeley DB is 4.3%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Progress OpenEdge RDBMS is 3.4%, down from 5.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Embedded Database

Featured Reviews

Emad Mokhatab

Solution & Software System Architect at Shaparak

Easy to integrate and manage the setup phase

One of the things that I want to see in Oracle Berkeley DB is a driver for reactive programming. I think the tool's official driver for reactive programming, especially for Java, is the thing that Oracle needs to be more agile in, specifically in those areas of programming that other products are currently going into. Other tools have become more innovative in many areas. I know that Oracle has many responsibilities in maintaining the situation with the current projects and so on. I think it would be very cool if Oracle could make improvements to its projects, as it can help me with my current projects. One reason why I don't choose Oracle Berkeley DB is because we want to go for reactive programming, along with Project Reactor from Spring, but we don't have the official driver for it.

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reviewer1648848

Vice President Strategic Development at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees

Customizable, intelligent, and reacts in real-time

There aren't any areas of improvement. We have a very long relationship with their R&D group. They're fairly dynamic there, however, it's not the relationships I manage. The only big hurdle for us is that most customers aren't familiar with it, so it's scary. If you're in commercial environments, everybody knows SQL, everybody knows Oracle, or whatever. It doesn't really matter due to the fact that it's embedded, however, they're paying those licenses. The only drawback is you can't just say, "Hey, provide us three Enterprise SQL licenses," and they just go reach into their Microsoft licensing deal and plug them in and go. Instead, it's plugging a new product into the mix that they otherwise would take care of on their own. The apparent cost is higher, however, in the end, it's really not.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The tool's performance is good, and I don't have any problems with it."

"The product meets all the essential business requirements."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"The product can be scaled in any direction and a very nice feature is that you can logically split the database by the value of the data, which is great."

Cons

"The product's interface could be more intuitive and user-friendly."

"I think the tool's official driver for reactive programming, especially for Java, is the thing that Oracle needs to be more agile in, specifically in those areas of programming that other products are currently going into."

"The only big hurdle for us is that most customers aren't familiar with it, so it's scary. If you're in commercial environments, everybody knows SQL, everybody knows Oracle, or whatever."

"Advanced security would be a good additional feature."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the product's pricing a five out of ten."

"There is a need to pay for the licenses and features of the tool."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

University

15%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

14%

Educational Organization

10%

Computer Software Company

16%

Energy/Utilities Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Government

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Small Business

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Questions from the Community

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Also Known As

Berkeley DB

OpenEdge RDBMS, Progress OpenEdge

Overview

Oracle Berkeley DB provides the best open source embeddable databases allowing developers the choice of SQL, Key/Value, XML/XQuery or Java Object storage for their data model. At its core is a fast, scalable, transactional database engine with proven reliability and availability. Berkeley DB comes three versions: Berkeley DB, Berkeley DB Java Edition, and Berkeley DB XML.

The Oracle Berkeley DB family of high performance, self-contained databases provides developers with a fast, transactional database solution with a track record of reliability, unmatched scalability and five-nines (99.999%) or better availability. Oracle Berkeley DB is well suited to Independent Software Vendors, device and equipment manufacturers, and enterprises or software companies building solutions which need a data management component. The Oracle Berkeley DB family of products provides fast, local persistence with zero oversight administration.

Customers and end-users will experience an application that simply works, reliably manages data, scales under extreme load, and requires zero oversight in deployment. Your development team can focus on your application and be confident that Berkeley DB will manage your application’s data.

For more information on Oracle Berkeley DB, visit Oracle.com

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The Progress OpenEdge Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) is an established, database management system for production systems. The OpenEdge database can support thousands of users and high traffic loads with sub-second response times. It helps to ensure that users are productive, customers are satisfied, and, for SaaS/Cloud computing environments, service-level agreements are met. Some of the key benefits of OpenEdge RDBMS include cost-effectiveness, raises productivity, easy to administer, scalable, and easy to manage. Progress OpenEdge RDBMS has a large shared-memory buffer pool allows up to a terabyte of the database to be cached in memory in a 64-bit OS environment. This gives memory-speed access to the frequently used parts of the database for best performance. In addition, its storage or space management is extendable: architected for expansion and optimized for performance. As a result, OpenEdge RDBMS presents virtually no limitations to the amount of data that can be stored in a single database other than the storage limits of your own computing environment.

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Sample Customers

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