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DBMS > 4D vs. BoltDB vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BoltDB vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn embedded key-value store for Go.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­bolthbase.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSpotifyPercona
Initial release19842013200820142015
Current releasev20, April 20232.3.4, January 20213.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
GoC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoCoprocessors in JavanoJavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
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.nonoyesnoyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users and roles

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