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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. OpenEdge vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Progress Software Corporation

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1984

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

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

yes

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes

user defined functions

no

Triggers

yes

yes

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

yes

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

no

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

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