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DBMS > 4D vs. Memcached vs. OpenEdge vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Memcached vs. OpenEdge vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP IQ

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  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 systemBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
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
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.memcached.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.postgres-xl.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
Developer4D, IncDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalProgress Software CorporationSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release1984200319842014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB1994
Current releasev20, April 20231.6.25, March 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 202010 R1, October 201816.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
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).Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4horizontal partitioningshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replicationSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infoMVCCACID
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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