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DBMS > 4D vs. EJDB vs. Galaxybase vs. GigaSpaces vs. Infobright

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EJDB vs. Galaxybase vs. GigaSpaces vs. Infobright

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgalaxybase.comwww.gigaspaces.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.html
Developer4D, IncSoftmotionsChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Gigaspaces TechnologiesIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release19842012201720002005
Current releasev20, April 2023Nov 20, November 202115.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and JavaJava, C++, .NetC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-lessLinuxLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes
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.yesnono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
in-process shared libraryBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined procedures and functionsyesno
Triggersyesnoyes, event driven architectureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
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
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoRole-based access controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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