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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Bangdb vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Tkrzw

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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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

bangdb.com

hive.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.bangdb.com

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

4D, Inc

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

1984

2012

2010

2020

Current release

v20, April 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.1.3, April 2022

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

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

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Optimistic locking

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

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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