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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. DataFS vs. SwayDB vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

newdatabase.com

swaydb.simer.au

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Mobiland AG

Simer Plaha

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1984

2018

2003

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.1.263, October 2022

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

yes

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

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication
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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

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.

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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