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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Lovefield vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.esgyn.cn

google.github.io/lovefield

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon

Esgyn

Google

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

1984

2007

2015

2014

1984

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

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