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DBMS > 4D vs. FatDB vs. Hypertable vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FatDB vs. Hypertable vs. SwayDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Wide column storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.com
Developer4D, IncFatCloudHypertable Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release1984201220092018
Current releasev20, April 20230.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC#C++Scala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92no infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia applicationsnono
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorselectable replication factor on file system levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsnono

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