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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SpaceTime vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

4D, Inc

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Mireo

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

1984

2010

2020

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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