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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EJDB vs. NuoDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

doc.nuodb.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

4D, Inc

Softmotions

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2012

2013

2018

Current release

v20, April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

server-less

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Role-based access control

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