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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

bigobject.io

greenplum.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.bigobject.io

docs.greenplum.org

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

4D, Inc

BigObject, Inc.

Pivotal Software Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Initial release

1984

2015

2005

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

7.0.0, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

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)

Linux

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

via views

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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