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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Cubrid vs. DolphinDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.dolphindb.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

firebase.google.com/docs/database

Developer

4D, Inc

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

DolphinDB, Inc

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Initial release

1984

2008

2018

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

11.0, January 2021

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Administrators, Users, Groups

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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