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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Hive vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Realm

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comhive.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlrealm.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docs
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookOracleRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release1984201220112014
Current releasev20, April 20233.1.3, April 202223.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyesnonoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducewith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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 infooff heap cacheyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesyes

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