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DBMS > 4D vs. BigObject vs. Dgraph vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigObject vs. Dgraph vs. OpenEdge

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.39
Rank#155  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score3.69
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.combigobject.iodgraph.iowww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.bigobject.iodgraph.io/­docsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
Developer4D, IncBigObject, Inc.Dgraph Labs, Inc.Progress Software Corporation
Initial release1984201520161984
Current releasev20, April 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGo
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
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuanoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyeshorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
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 groupsnono infoPlanned for future releasesUsers and groups

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