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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigObject

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

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Score	2.96
Rank	#100	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#313	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

bigobject.io

Technical documentation

livedoc.4d.com

docs.bigobject.io

Developer

4D, Inc

BigObject, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2015

Current release

v18 R5, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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