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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BaseX vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Riak KV vs. YDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#126  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.34
Rank#285  Overall
#43  Document stores
#130  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.combasex.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.basex.orgdocs.heavy.aiwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestydb.tech/­en/­docs
Developer4D, IncBaseX GmbHHEAVY.AI, Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesYandex
Initial release19842007201620092019
Current releasev20, April 202310.7, August 20235.10, January 20223.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAErlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesnorestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesnoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoErlangno
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoRound robinSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writernonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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