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DBMS > 4D vs. Bangdb vs. Drizzle vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Bangdb vs. Drizzle vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Prometheus

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.combangdb.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesprometheus.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.bangdb.comprometheus.io/­docs
Developer4D, IncSachin Sinha, BangDBDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerMicrosoft
Initial release19842012200820122015
Current releasev20, April 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20217.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++C++Go
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesNumeric data only
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 infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL like support with command line toolyes infowith proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)no infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes infoby Federation
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 Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDoptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
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 modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes (enterprise version only)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesno

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