DBMS > 4D vs. OpenQM vs. Realm vs. TimesTen vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. OpenQM vs. Realm vs. TimesTen vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

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

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

realm.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

realm.io/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

4D, Inc

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1984

1993

2014

1998

2023

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.4-12

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication
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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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