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DBMS > 4D vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Firebird vs. LokiJS vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Firebird vs. LokiJS vs. Memcached

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  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.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseIn-memory JavaScript DBMSIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
Developer4D, IncCloudflareFirebird FoundationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release198420182000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20142003
Current releasev20, April 20235.0.0, January 20241.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnono
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JavaScript APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoPSQLView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.no
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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