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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Dolt vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Widely used open source RDBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.mysql.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.dolthub.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

4D, Inc

DoltHub Inc

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Percona

Initial release

1984

2018

1995

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

CLI Client
HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

proprietary syntax

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

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