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DBMS > 4D vs. Cachelot.io vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Riak TS vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Cachelot.io vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Riak TS vs. TigerGraph

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemIn-memory caching systemCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comcachelot.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.tigergraph.com
Developer4D, IncGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release19842015201220152017
Current releasev20, April 20233.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyes, limitedSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Memcached protocolAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnolimited functionality with using 'rules'Erlangyes
TriggersyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between datasets can be storedyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
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 groupsnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoRole-based access control

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