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

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

bigobject.io

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.bigobject.io

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

BigObject, Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

Yandex

Initial release

1984

2015

1984

2019

Current release

v20, April 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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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)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

Active-passive shard replication

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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 defined for Yandex Cloud users

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