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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Datomic vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

docs.datomic.com

origodb.com/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Cognitect

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1984

1999

2012

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL-92

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

Clojure
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

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

depending on model

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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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