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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. chDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#15	Vector DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

doc.chdb.io

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

4D, Inc

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1984

2023

2010

2015

2000

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.3 July 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

server-less

hosted

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

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