DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Bangdb vs. Blueflood vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Bangdb vs. Blueflood vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

bangdb.com

blueflood.io

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.bangdb.com

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.timescale.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Rackspace

Timescale

Initial release

1984

2012

2013

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

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

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

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

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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