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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Elasticsearch vs. OrigoDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchorigodb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlorigodb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Developer4D, IncElasticRobert Friberg et alDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release198420102009 infounder the name LiveDB2018
Current releasev20, April 20238.6, January 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.yesnono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.NetJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesyes
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnodepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsRole based authorizationRole-based access control

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