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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. RethinkDB vs. STSdb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn embedded key-value store for Go.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
rethinkdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncDragonflyDB team and community contributorsThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017STS Soft SC
Initial release19842013202320092011
Current releasev20, April 20231.0, March 20232.4.1, August 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++C#
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
GoC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoLuano
Triggersyesnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoMVCC basedyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoPassword-based authenticationyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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