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DBMS > 4D vs. Bangdb vs. Cubrid vs. Firebird vs. HEAVY.AI

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Bangdb vs. Cubrid vs. Firebird vs. HEAVY.AI

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#187  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.combangdb.comcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.bangdb.comcubrid.org/­manualswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.heavy.ai
Developer4D, IncSachin Sinha, BangDBCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationFirebird FoundationHEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release1984201220082000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2016
Current releasev20, April 2023BangDB 2.0, October 202111.0, January 20215.0.0, January 20245.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C, C++, JavaC and C++C++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL like support with command line toolyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava Stored ProceduresPSQLno
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnonenoneSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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