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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. BigObject vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

bigobject.io

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.bigobject.io

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

4D, Inc

BigObject, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2019

2015

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

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)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

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

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Document is locked during a transaction

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

Access rights for users and roles

simple password-based access control

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