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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. ClickHouse vs. EJDB vs. SQLite

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.27
Rank#112  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score16.25
Rank#37  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score101.91
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comclickhouse.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comclickhouse.com/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
Developer4D, IncClickhouse Inc.SoftmotionsDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release1984201620122000
Current releasev20, April 2023v24.6.2.17-stable, July 20243.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
server-lessserver-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)noyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
in-process shared libraryADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonekey based and customnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infovia file-system locks
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.nono

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