DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Galaxybase vs. HEAVY.AI

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Galaxybase vs. HEAVY.AI

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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

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

galaxybase.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon

Cloudflare

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2012

2018

2017

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Strong typed schema

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Go
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source 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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

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

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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