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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. CockroachDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
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Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

4D, Inc

Cockroach Labs

Progress Software Corporation

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2015

1984

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

24.1.0, May 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

Role-based access control

Users and groups

simple password-based access control

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