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DBMS > 4D vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. Galaxybase vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. Galaxybase vs. SwayDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.combigobject.iowww.exasol.comgalaxybase.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.bigobject.iowww.exasol.com/­resources
Developer4D, IncBigObject, Inc.ExasolChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Simer Plaha
Initial release19842015200020172018
Current releasev20, April 2023Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaScala
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
Data schemeyesyesyesStrong typed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Lua
Python
R
Go
Java
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuauser defined functionsuser defined procedures and functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
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.noyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlno

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