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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Coveo vs. EsgynDB vs. Hive vs. Trafodion

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.coveo.comwww.esgyn.cnhive.apache.orgtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.coveo.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Hometrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Developer4D, IncCoveoEsgynApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19842012201520122014
Current releasev20, April 20233.1.3, April 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyeshybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC++
Java
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava Stored Proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersselectable replication factoryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 groupsgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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