DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Aurora vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Aurora vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

bigobject.io

www.exasol.com

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

docs.bigobject.io

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon

BigObject, Inc.

Exasol

Oracle

Initial release

1984

2015

2000

1980

Current release

v20, April 2023

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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