DBMS > 4D vs. Fauna vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Fauna vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

fauna.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

cloud.google.com/datastore

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.fauna.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

4D, Inc

Fauna, Inc.

Google

Initial release

1984

2014

2010

2008

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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

SQL-like query language (GQL)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

using Google App Engine

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong 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.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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