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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Bangdb vs. EXASOL vs. OpenEdge vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

bangdb.com

www.exasol.com

www.progress.com/openedge

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.bangdb.com

www.exasol.com/resources

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

4D, Inc

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Exasol

Progress Software Corporation

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1984

2012

2000

1984

2018

Current release

v20, April 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Scala

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java
Lua
Python
R

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

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