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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. gStore vs. Hive vs. LeanXcale vs. Oracle NoSQL

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

LeanXcale

Oracle

Initial release

1984

2016

2012

2015

2011

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.2, November 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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 DML and DDL statements

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
Java
Scala

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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.

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles

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