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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EsgynDB vs. Faircom DB vs. openGemini vs. OrientDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

docs.opengemini.org/guide

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Esgyn

FairCom Corporation

Huawei and openGemini community

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

1984

2015

1979

2022

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

V12, November 2020

1.1, July 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

HTTP REST

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Administrators and common users accounts

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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