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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Pinot vs. Lovefield vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Pinot vs. Lovefield vs. OpenEdge

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbpinot.apache.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.pinot.apache.orggithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
Developer4D, IncAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogleProgress Software Corporation
Initial release19842007201520141984
Current releasev20, April 20231.0.0, September 20232.1.12, February 2017OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
JavaScriptProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noUsers and groups

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