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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EXASOL vs. LMDB vs. SwayDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.exasol.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.lmdb.tech/­doc
Developer4D, IncExasolSymasSimer PlahaAlex Kashirin
Initial release19842000201120182020
Current releasev20, April 20230.9.32, January 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCScalaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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 datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnono

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