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DBMS > 4D vs. H2 vs. NuoDB vs. RDFox vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. H2 vs. NuoDB vs. RDFox vs. Riak KV

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.h2database.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldoc.nuodb.comdocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
Developer4D, IncThomas MuellerDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Oxford Semantic TechnologiesOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release19842005201320172009
Current releasev20, April 20232.2.220, July 20236.0, Septermber 20223.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Erlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsJava, SQLErlang
Triggersyesyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBreplication via a shared file systemselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersRoles, resources, and access typesyes, using Riak Security

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