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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigObject vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OrigoDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

bigobject.io

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

origodb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.bigobject.io

firebase.google.com/docs/database

origodb.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

4D, Inc

BigObject, Inc.

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Robert Friberg et al

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1984

2015

2012

2009

under the name LiveDB

1998

Current release

v20, April 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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