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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigObject vs. HarperDB vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

bigobject.io

www.harperdb.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.bigobject.io

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

4D, Inc

BigObject, Inc.

HarperDB

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1984

2015

2017

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.1, August 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++

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
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

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

Access rights for users and roles

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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