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DBMS > 4D vs. Derby vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. PlanetScale vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Derby vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. PlanetScale vs. Riak KV

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comdb.apache.org/­derbycloud.google.com/­datastoreplanetscale.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsplanetscale.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationGooglePlanetScaleOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release19841997200820202009
Current releasev20, April 202310.17.1.0, November 20233.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaGoErlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, details hereyesno
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesSQL-like query language (GQL)yes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Proceduresusing Google App Engineyes infoproprietary syntaxErlang
TriggersyesyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes, using Riak Security

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