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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Badger vs. openGemini vs. SQL.JS vs. TiDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityPort of SQLite to JavaScriptTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
sql.js.orgpingcap.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.opengemini.org/­guidesql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
Developer4D, IncDGraph LabsHuawei and openGemini communityAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release19842017202220122016
Current releasev20, April 20231.1, July 20238.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoJavaScriptGo, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoInteger, Float, Boolean, Stringyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTJavaScript APIGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
GoC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
JavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyesnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAdministrators and common users accountsnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionBadgeropenGeminiSQL.JSTiDB
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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