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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. BigObject vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

bigobject.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.bigobject.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

BigObject, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

1984

1999

2015

2021

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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