DBMS > 4D vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Widely used in-process key-value store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.datastax.com

docs.heavy.ai

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

DataStax

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2011

2016

1994

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

6.8, April 2020

5.10, January 2022

18.1.40, May 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Round robin

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

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

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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