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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Hive vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Trafodion vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 nodesTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comhive.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqltrafodion.apache.orgwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookOracleApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19842012201120142023
Current releasev20, April 20233.1.3, April 202223.3, December 20232.3.0, February 20191.0, May 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 infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, JavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesVector, Numeric and String
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 indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingSharding
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 featureyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducewith Hadoop integrationyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infooff heap cachenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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