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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EDB Postgres vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LeanXcale

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.enterprisedb.com

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.leanxcale.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

EnterpriseDB

Kyligence, Inc.

LeanXcale

Initial release

1984

2005

2016

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

14, December 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

standard with numerous extensions

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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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