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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. DolphinDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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.

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.dolphindb.com

www.featurebase.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

docs.featurebase.com

Developer

4D, Inc

DolphinDB, Inc

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Microsoft

Initial release

1984

2018

2017

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

2022, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

SQL-like query language

SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

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

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

Java
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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