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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NSDb vs. OpenEdge vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

nsdb.io

www.progress.com/openedge

origodb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

origodb.com/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1984

2012

2017

1984

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

v20, April 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

Write ahead log

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 based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Users and groups

Role based authorization

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