DBMS > 4D vs. Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

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

Primary database model

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.datomic.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.datomic.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

Cognitect

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Circonus LLC.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2012

2017

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.0.7075, December 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Clojure
Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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