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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. DuckDB vs. EXASOL vs. NuoDB vs. SwayDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comduckdb.orgwww.exasol.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comduckdb.org/­docswww.exasol.com/­resourcesdoc.nuodb.com
Developer4D, IncExasolDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release19842018200020132018
Current releasev20, April 20230.10, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++Scala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-lesshosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsJava, SQLno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocolAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMVCCyes
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.noyesyesyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersno

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