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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.combigobject.iowww.ehcache.orgwww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.bigobject.iowww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
Developer4D, IncBigObject, Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGProgress Software Corporation
Initial release1984201520091984
Current releasev20, April 20233.10.0, March 2022OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava
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)
All OS with a Java VMAIX
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
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
JCacheJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuanoyes
Triggersyesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoby using Terracotta Serverhorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnonoUsers and groups

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