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DBMS > 4D vs. BoltDB vs. HarperDB vs. RethinkDB vs. STSdb

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn embedded key-value store for Go.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.DBMS 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 storeDocument storeDocument storeKey-value store
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
Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.55
Rank#252  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score2.84
Rank#106  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.harperdb.iorethinkdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.harperdb.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncHarperDBThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017STS Soft SC
Initial release19842013201720092011
Current releasev20, April 20233.1, August 20212.4.1, August 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoNode.jsC++C#
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freedynamic schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoJSON data typesyes 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 indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like data manipulation statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
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 proceduresyesnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1no
TriggersyesnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesAtomic execution of specific operationsAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByesyes
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 groupsnoAccess rights for users and rolesyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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