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DBMS > 4D vs. Ehcache vs. Google BigQuery vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Ehcache vs. Google BigQuery vs. OrigoDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
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Score2.80
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score5.55
Rank#69  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score62.67
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#379  Overall
#51  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.ehcache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigqueryorigodb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsorigodb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGoogleRobert Friberg et al
Initial release1984200920102009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current releasev20, April 20233.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC#
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JCacheRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions infoin JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta Servernonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoWrite ahead log
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 groupsnoAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)Role based authorization

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