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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. eXtremeDB

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Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

www.mcobject.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

McObject

Initial release

1984

2012

2015

2001

Current release

v20, April 2023

8.2, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

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
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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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