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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Dgraph vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­redshiftdgraph.iopouchdb.comwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdgraph.io/­docspouchdb.com/­guideswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
Developer4D, IncAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Dgraph Labs, Inc.Apache Software FoundationDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release19842012201620122000
Current releasev20, April 20237.1.1, June 20193.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCGoJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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 indexesyesrestrictedyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptActionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin PythonnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoPlanned for future releasesnono

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