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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.firebirdsql.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

origodb.com/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Esgyn

Firebird Foundation

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1984

2015

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.0.0, January 2024

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role based authorization

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