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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. OpenEdge

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  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 ScioreBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.40
Rank#269  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisewww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
Developer4D, IncAmazonKyligence, Inc.Progress Software Corporation
Initial release19842007201620161984
Current releasev20, April 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesUsers and groups

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