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DBMS > 4D vs. BaseX vs. Citus vs. Datomic vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BaseX vs. Citus vs. Datomic vs. Hypertable

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.combasex.orgwww.citusdata.comwww.datomic.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.basex.orgdocs.citusdata.comdocs.datomic.com
Developer4D, IncBaseX GmbHCognitectHypertable Inc.
Initial release19842007201020122009
Current releasev20, April 202311.2, August 20248.1, December 20181.0.7180, July 20240.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJava, ClojureC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesno
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.yesyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Clojure
Java
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infoTransaction Functionsno
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsyesBy using transaction functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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