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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	2.74
Rank	#119	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

livedoc.4d.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

4D, Inc

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1984

2011

Current release

v18 R5, January 2021

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

.Net

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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