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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. OushuDB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

origodb.com/docs

www.oushu.com/documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

4D, Inc

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Oushu

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

1984

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.4, October 2021

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

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

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

C
C++

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Role based authorization

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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