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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Dragonfly vs. HarperDB vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.harperdb.io

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.harperdb.io/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

HarperDB

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

1984

2012

2023

2017

2009

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.0, March 2023

3.1, August 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Node.js

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

JSON data types

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

Atomic execution of specific operations

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Password-based authentication

Access rights for users and roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

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