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DBMS > 4D vs. EXASOL vs. Firebolt vs. Immudb vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EXASOL vs. Firebolt vs. Immudb vs. SwayDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseAn open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#305  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.exasol.comwww.firebolt.iogithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.firebolt.iodocs.immudb.io
Developer4D, IncExasolFirebolt Analytics Inc.CodenotarySimer Plaha
Initial release19842000202020202018
Current releasev20, April 20231.2.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoScala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyesSQL-like syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Lua
Python
R
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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