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DBMS > 4D vs. HEAVY.AI vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. HEAVY.AI vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.13
Rank#114  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.34
Rank#156  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score2.08
Rank#116  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score3.67
Rank#75  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
pouchdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.heavy.aipouchdb.com/­guideswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
Developer4D, IncHEAVY.AI, Inc.Apache Software FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release1984201620122009
Current releasev20, April 20235.10, January 20227.1.1, June 20193.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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 indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptC 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 proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersyesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, using Riak Security

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