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

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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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.92
Rank	#73	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	3.75
Rank	#88	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

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

www.progress.com/openedge

realm.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

realm.io/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

1984

2012

1984

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Users and groups

yes

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