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DBMS > 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.32
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvcloud.google.com/­bigtable
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apicloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docs
Developer4D, IncCloudflareGoogle
Initial release1984201620182015
Current releasev20, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
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Implementation languagePython
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linuxhostedhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonono
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 indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factoryesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-row operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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