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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenEdge vs. TimesTen vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Application development environment with integrated database management system

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

4D, Inc

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1984

2010

1984

1998

2011

Current release

v20, April 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.Net

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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 can be defined per database

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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