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DBMS > 4D vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenTSDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.jaguardb.comopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
Developer4D, IncGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014DataJaguar, Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release1984201220152011
Current releasev20, April 20233.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes, based on authentication and database rulesrights management via user accountsno

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