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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EJDB vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. Hyprcubd

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Name

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

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/spotify/heroic

hyprcubd.com (offline)

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

4D, Inc

Softmotions

Spotify

Hypertable Inc.

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2012

2014

2009

Current release

v20, April 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

via Elasticsearch

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

in-process shared library

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

gRPC (https)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

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
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

token access

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