DBMS > 4D vs. Derby vs. EJDB vs. Hypertable vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Derby vs. EJDB vs. Hypertable vs. Newts

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

db.apache.org/derby

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Softmotions

Hypertable Inc.

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

1984

1997

2012

2009

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

10.17.1.0, November 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

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

JDBC

in-process shared library

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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