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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Firestore

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Firestore

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.bigchaindb.comblueflood.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­firestore
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorebigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikifirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
Developer4D, IncAlibabaRackspaceGoogle
Initial release19842016201620132017
Current releasev20, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languagePythonJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersyesnonoyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoUsing Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

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