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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EventStoreDB vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.37
Rank	#271	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.eventstore.com

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

developers.eventstore.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Event Store Limited

OpenPie

Initial release

1984

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

21.2, February 2021

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

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