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DBMS > 4D vs. BigObject vs. BoltDB vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigObject vs. BoltDB vs. Hypertable

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  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 systemAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAn embedded key-value store for Go.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeWide column store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.combigobject.iogithub.com/­boltdb/­bolt
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.bigobject.io
Developer4D, IncBigObject, Inc.Hypertable Inc.
Initial release1984201520132009
Current releasev20, April 20230.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC++
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)
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
GoC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuanono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenoneselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnonono

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