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DBMS > 4D vs. BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. InfinityDB vs. LMDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. InfinityDB vs. LMDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.combigobject.ioblueflood.ioboilerbay.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdb
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualwww.lmdb.tech/­doc
Developer4D, IncBigObject, Inc.RackspaceBoiler Bay Inc.Symas
Initial release19842015201320022011
Current releasev20, April 20234.00.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuanonono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on Cassandranonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnononono

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