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DBMS > 4D vs. EJDB vs. HBase vs. LevelDB vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EJDB vs. HBase vs. LevelDB vs. SQLite

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
Developer4D, IncSoftmotionsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetGoogleDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release19842012200820112000
Current releasev20, April 20232.3.4, January 20211.23, February 20213.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++C
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
in-process shared libraryJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnono

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