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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. EJDB vs. Elasticsearch

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. EJDB vs. Elasticsearch

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#213  Overall
#101  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#331  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlbigobject.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearch
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html
Developer4D, IncAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupBigObject, Inc.SoftmotionsElastic
Initial release19842016201520122010
Current releasev20, April 20238.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoElastic License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
server-lessAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesLuanoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoES-Hadoop Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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