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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Bangdb vs. Elasticsearch vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	128.79
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

bangdb.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.bangdb.com

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Elastic

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1984

2012

2010

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

8.6, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes (enterprise version only)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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