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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Sadas Engine vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.sadasengine.comswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncSADAS s.r.l.Simer PlahaJuxt Ltd.
Initial release1984200620182019
Current releasev20, April 20238.01.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaClojure
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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