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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. CouchDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. IRONdb

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

drill.apache.org

couchdb.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Google

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

1984

2012

2005

2010

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.20.3, January 2023

3.3.3, December 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C++

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single document possible

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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