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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Blueflood vs. GBase vs. OpenEdge

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Application development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comblueflood.iowww.gbase.cnwww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
Developer4D, IncRackspaceGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Progress Software Corporation
Initial release1984201320041984
Current releasev20, April 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cOpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, Python
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noStandard with numerous extensionsyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoyesUsers and groups

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