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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. etcd vs. jBASE vs. openGauss vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

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

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

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

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

4D, Inc

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Huawei and openGauss community

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

1984

1991

2019

1998

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.4, August 2019

5.7

3.0, March 2022

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

Source-replica replication

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

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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