DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Bangdb vs. Firebird

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Bangdb vs. Firebird

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

bangdb.com

www.firebirdsql.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.bangdb.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

Amazon

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Firebird Foundation

Initial release

1984

2016

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

Current release

v20, April 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes (enterprise version only)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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