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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

In-memory caching system

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

cachelot.io

www.openpie.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

4D, Inc

OpenPie

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1984

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.1, January 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Memcached protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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

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Key customers

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