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DBMS > 4D vs. Memcached vs. OpenEdge vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Memcached vs. OpenEdge vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Postgres-XL

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.memcached.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
Developer4D, IncDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalProgress Software CorporationPercona
Initial release19842003198420152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releasev20, April 20231.6.25, March 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.4.10-2.10, November 201710 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.yesyesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesJavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Shardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infovia In-Memory Engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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