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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A DBMS for IoT projects, analytical and transactional use cases , runnable on IoT devices and in the cloud, in distributed and replicated environments

Application development environment with integrated database management system

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

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Score	2.58
Rank	#109	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#235	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	5.19
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	4.17
Rank	#82	Overall
	#14	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

harperdb.io

www.progress.com/openedge

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

livedoc.4d.com

docs.harperdb.io

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

HarperDB

Progress Software Corporation

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

1984

2017

1984

2009

Current release

v18.1, March 2020

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.4.0, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

Users and groups

yes

users and table-level permissions

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