DBMS > 4D vs. Badger vs. BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Badger vs. BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/boltdb/bolt

rocksdb.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

4D, Inc

DGraph Labs

Facebook, Inc.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1984

2017

2013

1999

Current release

v20, April 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

C++ API
Java API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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