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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. OrientDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Oracle

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

1984

2011

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

23.3, December 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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