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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. OpenEdge vs. Riak TS vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.progress.com/openedge

sqream.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.sqream.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Progress Software Corporation

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SQream Technologies

Initial release

1984

2015

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.0.0, September 2022

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

close to SQL 92

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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