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DBMS > 4D vs. BoltDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BoltDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn embedded key-value store for Go.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score0.52
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score4.00
Rank#84  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.postgres-xl.orgrocksdb.orgspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikispark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
Developer4D, IncFacebook, Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release198420132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20132014
Current releasev20, April 202310 R1, October 20188.11.4, April 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCC++Scala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.yesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACID infoMVCCyesno
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.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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