DBMS > 4D vs. Badger vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HugeGraph vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Badger vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HugeGraph vs. OpenSearch

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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.

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.22
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	#47	Key-value stores

Score	7.36
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	#9	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

4D, Inc

DGraph Labs

Google

Baidu

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

1984

2017

2018

2021

Current release

v20, April 2023

0.9

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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