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DBMS > 4D vs. Datomic vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. NSDb vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Datomic vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. NSDb vs. OpenEdge

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#266  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.datomic.comkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisensdb.iowww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.datomic.comnsdb.io/­Architecturedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
Developer4D, IncCognitectKyligence, Inc.Progress Software Corporation
Initial release19842012201620171984
Current releasev20, April 20231.0.7075, December 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaJava, Scala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SQL-like query languageyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Clojure
Java
Java
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyes
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoUsers and groups

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