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DBMS > 4D vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeWide column storeRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apidocs.datastax.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
Developer4D, IncCloudflareDataStaxThomas MuellerIBM
Initial release19842018201120052017
Current releasev20, April 20236.8, April 20202.2.220, July 20232.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)No - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionCloudflare Workers KVDatastax EnterpriseH2IBM Db2 Event Store
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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